Collective Brutality

The List (PLST) #EMN-85 · Rare · Sorcery

Mana cost: {1}{B}

Escalate—Discard a card. (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an instant or sorcery card from it. That player discards that card.
• Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
• Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Illustrated by Johann Bodin · Released November 7, 2019

Prices

Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: up $0.01 USD (2.8%) to $0.37 USD; low $0.36 USD, high $0.38 USD.

Printings

  1. Innistrad Remastered #101 (INR) · Rare · 2025 · $0.36 USD
  2. Innistrad Remastered #308 (INR) · Rare · 2025 · $0.43 USD
  3. Innistrad Remastered #375 (INR) · Rare · 2025 · $0.38 USD
  4. Shadows over Innistrad Remastered #103 (SIR) · Rare · 2023
  5. Secret Lair Drop #1085 (SLD) · Rare · 2022 · $5.55 USD
  6. The List #EMN-85 (this printing) · Rare · 2019 · $0.37 USD
  7. Eldritch Moon #85 (EMN) · Rare · 2016 · $0.33 USD
  8. Eldritch Moon Promos #85s (PEMN) · Rare · 2016 · $3.65 USD foil

Legality

Rulings

  1. 2016-07-13 · wotc — If an effect allows you to cast a spell that has escalate without paying its mana cost, you pay escalate costs for that spell if you choose more than one mode.
  2. 2016-07-13 · wotc — You choose all of your modes at once. You can’t wait to perform one mode’s actions and then decide to choose more modes.
  3. 2016-07-13 · wotc — Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.
  4. 2016-07-13 · wotc — Additional costs don’t affect a spell’s mana value.
  5. 2016-07-13 · wotc — If one target of an escalate spell becomes illegal, the other targets will still be affected. If all of the targets become illegal, the spell won’t resolve.
  6. 2016-07-13 · wotc — You can’t choose any one mode multiple times.
  7. 2016-07-13 · wotc — If two of the chosen modes of an escalate spell target a creature, you may choose the same creature for each mode’s target, or choose different creatures. The same is true if the chosen modes target a player (or opponent).

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