Close Encounter
- Mana cost
- {1}{G}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Edge of Eternities #176 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.09 USD
As an additional cost to cast this spell, choose a creature you control or a warped creature card you own in exile.
Close Encounter deals damage equal to the power of the chosen creature or card to target creature.
Close Encounter has 1 printing, first in Edge of Eternities (2025). EDHREC ranks it #20,061 among Commander cards. It appears most in Haliya, Ascendant Cadet decks (52 on EDHREC). It has 1 official ruling.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Close Encounter most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Haliya, Ascendant Cadet: 52 decks
- Kodama of the North Tree: 6 decks
- Kogla and Yidaro: 4 decks
- Lord Dregg, Insect Invader: 3 decks
- Benjamin Sisko, Besieged: 1 decks
- Skanos Dragonheart: 1 decks
Often played with Close Encounter
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If you chose a creature on the battlefield, use that creature’s power when Close Encounter resolves to determine how much damage is dealt. If that creature is no longer on the battlefield when Close Encounter resolves, use that creature’s power as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how much damage is dealt.