Collective Defiance
- Mana cost
- {1}{R}{R}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Eldritch Moon Promos #123s (rare)
Escalate {1} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Target player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards.
• Collective Defiance deals 4 damage to target creature.
• Collective Defiance deals 3 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
Collective Defiance has 5 printings, first in Eldritch Moon (2016). EDHREC ranks it #7,798 among Commander cards. It appears most in Nekusar, the Mindrazer decks (2,223 on EDHREC). It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Collective Defiance most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Nekusar, the Mindrazer: 2,223 decks
- Riku of Many Paths: 1,663 decks
- The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell: 1,207 decks
- Captain Howler, Sea Scourge: 820 decks
- Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame: 712 decks
- The Locust God: 572 decks
- Rielle, the Everwise: 470 decks
- Ivora, Insatiable Heir: 152 decks
Often played with Collective Defiance
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.
- : 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.
- : Additional costs don’t affect a spell’s mana value.
- : 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.
- : You can’t choose any one mode multiple times.
- : 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).
- : 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.