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Guided Strike

Magic: The GatheringWeatherlight#16

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Magic: The Gathering

Mana cost

WeatherlightWTH · #16

Card type: Instant
Rarity: Common
Indicative price: 0.13 € · 0.12 $
Mana value: 2
Colour: White

Card text

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. Draw a card.

Format legality

CommanderLegal
DuelLegal
LegacyLegal
OathbreakerLegal
PauperLegal
PaupercommanderLegal
PennyLegal
PredhLegal
PremodernLegal
VintageLegal

Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).

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Printing information

Illustrator: Gary Leach
Card language: English
Release date: 1997-06-09

Flavour text

"If you can kill your enemy with the first stroke, you save yourself the labor of the second." —Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Rulings

2017-11-17

If the creature is an illegal target when Guided Strike tries to resolve, it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won’t draw a card.