Executioner's Swing (Gatecrash) - Gatherer

Executioner's Swing

Community Rating:

Community Rating: 2.815 / 5 (65 votes)

Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Executioner's Swing

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Instant

Card Text:

Target creature that dealt damage this turn gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Flavor Text:

"The contract specified an appendage for a missed payment. Read the fine print: the head is an appendage."

Watermark:

Orzhov

Expansion:

Gatecrash

Rarity:

Common

Card Number:

161

Artist:

Karl Kopinski

Language:

English

Rulings

1/24/2013	You can't choose a creature that hasn't yet dealt damage during the turn as the target of Executioner's Swing, so in most cases it's not possible for Executioner's Swing to reduce the amount of combat damage a creature deals. (If a creature has double strike, you could cast Executioner's Swing after it deals first-strike damage but before it deals regular combat damage.)
1/24/2013	It doesn't matter what the creature dealt damage to or if that damage was combat damage.