Collateral Damage
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Fate ReforgedFRF · #95
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.13 € · ★ 0.48 € · 0.05 $ · ★ 0.35 $
- Mana value
- 1
- Colour
- Red
Card text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Collateral Damage deals 3 damage to any target.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Ryan Barger
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2015-01-23
Flavour text
It is much easier to create fire than to contain it.
Rulings
If you sacrifice an attacking or blocking creature during the declare blockers step, it won’t deal combat damage. If you wait until the combat damage step, but that creature is dealt lethal damage, it’ll be destroyed before you get a chance to sacrifice it.
Players can respond to Collateral Damage only after it’s been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to stop you from casting this spell.
You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you can’t cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you can’t sacrifice additional creatures.
