Basilica Guards
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
GatecrashGTC · #5
- Card type
- Creature — Human Soldier
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.08 € · ★ 0.47 € · 0.16 $ · ★ 0.69 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 1
- Toughness
- 4
- Colour
- White
Card text
Defender Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- 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
- Dan Murayama Scott
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2013-02-01
Flavour text
"None may pass . . . for free."
Rulings
The amount of life you gain from extort is based on the total amount of life lost, not necessarily the number of opponents you have. For example, if your opponent's life total can't change (perhaps because that player controls Platinum Emperion), you won't gain any life.
The extort ability doesn't target any player.
The extort ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. The ability resolves even if that spell is countered.
You may pay a maximum of one time for each extort triggered ability. You decide whether to pay when the ability resolves.
