Rivals' Duel
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Planechase AnthologyPCA · #51
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.07 € · 0.28 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Choose two target creatures that share no creature types. Those creatures fight each other. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
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).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2016-11-25
Flavour text
They could agree on one thing only: one of them must die.
Rulings
If either one of the creatures leaves the battlefield before Rivals’ Duel resolves, no damage is dealt to or by the remaining creature. If both creatures leave the battlefield before Rivals’ Duel resolves, the spell doesn’t resolve for having no legal targets.
If, by the time Rivals’ Duel resolves, an effect has caused the two target creatures to share a creature type, Rivals’ Duel doesn’t resolve for having no legal targets.
The two creatures may be controlled by the same player.
