Defiant Strike
Strixhaven Mystical Archive (STA) #3 · Uncommon · Instant
Mana cost: {W}
Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Draw a card.
"For twelve days and twelve nights, Somat assailed the monster's shell. On the thirteenth morning, it cracked with the dawn."
—*Heroics: A Book of Fables*
Illustrated by Dominik Mayer · Released April 23, 2021
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.28 USD · €0.12 EUR
- Foil: $0.32 USD · €0.21 EUR
- Etched: $0.40 USD
Nonfoil price since July 24, 2026: up $0.05 USD (21.7%) to $0.28 USD; low $0.23 USD, high $0.29 USD.
Printings
- Foundations Jumpstart #187 (J25) · Common · 2024 · $0.33 USD
- Strixhaven Mystical Archive #3 (this printing) · Uncommon · 2021 · $0.28 USD
- Core Set 2021 #15 (M21) · Common · 2020 · $0.25 USD
- The List #WAR-9 (PLST) · Common · 2019 · $0.33 USD
- War of the Spark #9 (WAR) · Common · 2019 · $0.17 USD
- Khans of Tarkir #7 (KTK) · Common · 2014 · $0.10 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Legal
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2020-06-23 · wotc — If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Defiant Strike tries to resolve, the spell won't resolve. You won't draw a card.