Unnerving Assault
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
EventideEVE · #114
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.10 € · ★ 0.73 € · 0.12 $ · ★ 0.50 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Blue Red
Card text
Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0 until end of turn if was spent to cast this spell, and creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn if was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if was spent.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- 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
- Ron Spencer
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2008-07-25
Flavour text
The scales of battle rarely balance.
Rulings
If a creature changes controllers later in the turn, that won't change how Unnerving Assault affected it.
If the spell is copied, the copy will never have had mana of the stated color paid for it, no matter what colors were spent on the original spell.
The spell cares about what mana was spent to pay its total cost, not just what mana was spent to pay the hybrid part of its cost.
The spell checks on resolution to see if any mana of the stated colors was spent to pay its cost. If so, it doesn't matter how much mana of that color was spent.
Unnerving Assault affects only creatures on the battlefield at the time it resolves. If a creature enters later that turn, it won't be affected.