Thornscape Battlemage (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition) - Gatherer

Thornscape Battlemage

Community Rating:

Community Rating: 3.929 / 5 (28 votes)

Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Thornscape Battlemage

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Creature — Elf Wizard

Card Text:

Kicker

and/or

(You may pay an additional and/or as you cast this spell.)

When Thornscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its Red

kicker, it deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

When Thornscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its White

kicker, destroy target artifact.

P/T:

2 / 2

Expansion:

Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition

Rarity:

Uncommon

All Sets:

Card Number:

Artist:

Matt Cavotta

Language:

English

Rulings

3/14/2017	You choose whether to kick a spell as you cast it, and you pay that much along with the spell's mana cost at the same time. Kicking a spell is always optional.
3/14/2017	You can pay any particular kicker cost only once. You can't pay it multiple times to get multiples of either triggered ability.
3/14/2017	If Thornscape Battlemage is put onto the battlefield as the result of a spell or ability, there's no opportunity to kick it.
3/14/2017	Kicker costs don't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.
11/8/2024	If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
11/8/2024	The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
11/8/2024	If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
11/8/2024	If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
11/8/2024	If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
11/8/2024	To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.