Dash

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Dash is an alternative cost that trades permanence for speed. You may cast a creature with dash for its dash cost.

How it works

• A creature cast for its dash cost gains haste, so it can attack the turn it enters.
• At the beginning of the next end step, you return that creature to its owner's hand.

Rules notes

• Dash lets a creature attack immediately and dodge sorcery-speed removal, since it leaves play at end of turn.
• The creature's enters-the-battlefield abilities still trigger when it is cast with dash.
• Dash is an alternative cost; the creature's mana value is unchanged.

Rule reference

[702.109]