Carnival // Carnage
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.05 € · ★ 0.31 € · 0.23 $ · ★ 0.30 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Colour
- Black Red
Card text
Carnival deals 1 damage to target creature or planeswalker and 1 damage to that permanent's controller.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Zoltan Boros
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2019-01-25
Carnage
Sorcery
Mana cost :
Carnage deals 3 damage to target opponent. That player discards two cards.
Rulings
If the target permanent is an illegal target by the time Carnival tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. No player is dealt damage.
If the target player is an illegal target by the time Carnage tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. No player discards.
A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Assault // Battery has a mana value of 5 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Assault // Battery.
Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both.
Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of sorcery cards in your graveyard, Assault // Battery counts once, not twice.
If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast a sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Assault this way, but not Battery.
If you copy a spell that's half of a split card, the copy copies that same half. For example, if you copy Assault, the copy is also Assault, not Battery.
Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack.
To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of this split card.