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Executioner's Swing

{W}{B}

Instant

GTCGatecrash#161common
Foil

"The contract specified an appendage for a missed payment. Read the fine print: the head is an appendage."

Border
black
Frame
2003
Pull rate
about 1 per booster–1 in 748
Illustrator
Karl Kopinski
Found in
Gatecrash MTGO Redemption · Gatecrash Intro Pack Orzhov Oppression · 8 more
Printings1
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
PennyLegal
PioneerLegal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
Target creature that dealt damage this turn gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Market · per finishspark updated 11h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+15.4%
$0.15
$0.01 low$0.00 gap
Foil+0.0%
$0.45
$0.10 low$0.02 gap
Cheapest playable copy$0.15· across 1 printing

Rulings

2 · latest Jan 24, 2013 · one tap opens all
  • WotCJan 24, 2013

    It doesn’t matter what the creature dealt damage to or if that damage was combat damage.

  • WotCJan 24, 2013

    You can’t choose a creature that hasn’t yet dealt damage during the turn as the target of Executioner’s Swing, so in most cases it’s not possible for Executioner’s Swing to reduce the amount of combat damage a creature deals. (If a creature has double strike, you could cast Executioner’s Swing after it deals first-strike damage but before it deals regular combat damage.)

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