Cleaver Blow
Click the card to switch sides
Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Mystery Booster 2MB2 · #542
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.24 € · 0.18 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Multicleave (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell. For each time you do, choose a paired set of square brackets and remove the words in between.) Destroy target [nonblack] creature [with mana value 3 or less] [an opponent controls]. You [and its controller each] draw a card [and lose 2 life]. Create a [tapped] 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
Format legality
Legality is not available in the catalogue.
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
- Drew Moss
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2024-08-02
Rulings
For many playtest cards, you’ll need to make a generous assumption that basic game rules would be updated to allow them to work. The Mystery Booster 2 Playtest Card Notes section (reproduced here in individual Gatherer rulings) provides guidance for fitting these cards into the existing rules structure.
If you paid Cleaver Blow’s multicleave cost, that spell doesn’t have any of the text in the chosen set (or sets, as appropriate) of square brackets while it’s on the stack.
Multicleave is an optional additional cost.
Playtest cards aren’t legal for play in any tournament format other than Mystery Booster Limited formats. On the other hand, we expect they will spice up a wide variety of non-tournament games (as long as everyone’s on the same page about using them!).
Playtest cards use a modified version of game symbols, such as and . These modified symbols should be treated as the standard symbols during play.
There are 64 different ways to cast Cleaver Blow using its multicleave ability.