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Blessed Alliance

Card Name

Blessed Alliance

Mana Cost

1

Type

Instant

Rarity

Uncommon

rules Text

Escalate
2
 (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)Choose one or more —• Target player gains 4 life.• Untap up to two target creatures.• Target opponent sacrifices an attacking creature.

Legal Formats

Commander, Explorer, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Historic, Pauper, Standard

Rulings

(7/13/2016)
The targeted opponent chooses which of their attacking creatures to sacrifice, not you.
(7/13/2016)
Untapping an attacking creature doesn't cause it to be removed from combat.
(7/13/2016)
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.
(7/13/2016)
You can't choose any one mode multiple times.
(7/13/2016)
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).
(7/13/2016)
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.
(7/13/2016)
Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.
(7/13/2016)
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.
(7/13/2016)
Additional costs don't affect a spell's mana value.