Dark Temper
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
ConfluxCON · #61
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.09 € · ★ 0.17 € · 0.03 $ · ★ 0.19 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Dark Temper deals 2 damage to target creature. If you control a black permanent, destroy the creature instead.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- 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
- Jaime Jones
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2009-02-06
Flavour text
When you've got the temperament of a dragon, every argument is one you'll win.
Rulings
Dark Temper has a self-replacement effect, which applies before other prevention or replacement effects would. If you control a black permanent as Dark Temper resolves, it doesn’t deal damage at all (so damage prevention or redirection effects would have no effect); it simply destroys the targeted creature.
This checks the colors of permanents you control as it resolves.