Savage Alliance
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Innistrad Remastered #169 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.21 USD
Escalate {1} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Creatures target player controls gain trample until end of turn.
• Savage Alliance deals 2 damage to target creature.
• Savage Alliance deals 1 damage to each creature target opponent controls.
Savage Alliance has 2 printings, first in Eldritch Moon (2016). EDHREC ranks it #18,404 among Commander cards. It appears most in Riku of Many Paths decks (567 on EDHREC). It has 9 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Savage Alliance most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Riku of Many Paths: 567 decks
- Kazarov, Sengir Pureblood: 23 decks
Often played with Savage Alliance
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You can't choose any one mode multiple times.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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).
- : When determining how much damage a creature with trample may assign to the player or planeswalker it's attacking, take into account damage that has already been dealt to the blocking creatures. For example, a 4/4 creature with trample blocked by a 4/4 creature with 2 damage marked on it may assign 2 damage to that creature and 2 damage to the defending player.
- : If you choose the second and third modes, and the targeted creature is controlled by the targeted opponent, that creature will take 2 plus 1 damage for a total of 3 damage. An ability that triggers whenever that creature is dealt damage will trigger twice.
- : 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.
- : Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.
- : Additional costs don't affect a spell's mana value.