Collective Brutality
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- The List #EMN-85 (rare)
- Price
- $0.37 USD
Escalate—Discard a card. (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an instant or sorcery card from it. That player discards that card.
• Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
• Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Collective Brutality has 8 printings, first in Eldritch Moon (2016). EDHREC ranks it #11,945 among Commander cards. It appears most in Tourach, Dread Cantor decks (40 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 Brutality most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Tourach, Dread Cantor: 40 decks
- Elim Garak, Simple Tailor: 37 decks
- Haakon, Stromgald Scourge: 27 decks
- Moonstone, Harsh Mistress: 3 decks
- Kamber, the Plunderer: 2 decks
- Gul Dukat, Colonial Prefect: 1 decks
- Vadmir, New Blood
Often played with Collective Brutality
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
- Ultra Magnus, Tactician
- Arcee, Sharpshooter
- Blaster, Combat DJ
- Goldbug, Humanity's Ally
- Prowl, Stoic Strategist
- Soundwave, Sonic Spy
- Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist
- Dread Fugue
- Ratchet, Field Medic
- Optimus Prime, Hero
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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).