Arcane Melee
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Avacyn RestoredAVR · #44
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.31 € · ★ 1.17 € · 0.38 $ · ★ 1.59 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Instant and sorcery spells cost less to cast.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- 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
- Jaime Jones
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2012-05-04
Flavour text
Debates between wizards are never purely academic.
Rulings
Arcane Melee can reduce alternative costs such as miracle costs.
Arcane Melee can’t reduce the colored mana requirement of an instant or sorcery spell.
If there are additional costs to cast a spell, such as a kicker cost or a cost imposed by another effect (such as Thalia, Guardian of Thraben’s ability), apply those increases before applying cost reductions.
The cost to cast an instant or sorcery spell with one generic mana in its mana cost will be reduced by . For example, an instant spell with a mana cost of would cost to cast.
