Mage Duel
Sorcery
"Remember the rules. No spells to the face!"
- Border
- black
- Frame
- 2015
- Pull rate
- about 1 per booster–1 in 525
- Illustrator
- Randy Vargas
- Found in
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less to cast if you've cast another instant or sorcery spell this turn.
Target creature you control gets +1/+2 until end of turn. Then it fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)Plays as: Fight Removal
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Rulings
3 · latest Apr 16, 2021 · one tap opens all
- WotCApr 16, 2021
If the creature you control is an illegal target as Mage Duel tries to resolve, that creature won’t get +1/+2. If that creature is a legal target, but the one you don’t control isn’t, your creature will still get +1/+2. In both cases, no fight will happen and no creature will deal or be dealt damage.
- WotCApr 16, 2021
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you’re paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Mage Duel). Mage Duel’s mana value is always 3, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
- WotCApr 16, 2021
You can’t cast Mage Duel unless you choose both a creature you control and a creature you don’t control as targets.