Mage Duel
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Strixhaven: School of MagesSTX · #137
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.05 € · ★ 0.05 € · 0.14 $ · ★ 0.24 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Green
Card text
This spell costs less to cast if you've cast another instant or sorcery spell this turn. Target creature you control gets +1/+2 until end of turn. Then it fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Randy Vargas
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2021-04-23
Flavour text
"Remember the rules. No spells to the face!"
Rulings
If the creature you control is an illegal target as Mage Duel tries to resolve, that creature won’t get +1/+2. If that creature is a legal target, but the one you don’t control isn’t, your creature will still get +1/+2. In both cases, no fight will happen and no creature will deal or be dealt damage.
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you’re paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Mage Duel). Mage Duel’s mana value is always 3, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
You can’t cast Mage Duel unless you choose both a creature you control and a creature you don’t control as targets.