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Casualties of War

Casualties of War

Sorcery

rare

Choose one or more — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target creature. • Destroy target enchantment. • Destroy target land. • Destroy target planeswalker.

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Semantic Tags

Artifact Hatemechanical

Specifically destroys, exiles, or shuts down artifacts.

Specifically destroys, exiles, or shuts down artifacts.

Specifically removes artifacts.

Specifically removes creatures — destroy, exile, damage, or -X/-X.

Specifically destroys, exiles, or shuts down enchantments.

Specifically destroys, exiles, or shuts down enchantments.

Specifically removes enchantments.

Destroys or removes lands.

Destroys or removes lands.

Land Hatemechanical

Destroys or denies opponents' lands — Strip Mine, Blood Moon, Back to Basics.

Land Hatevector

Destroys or denies opponents' lands — Strip Mine, Blood Moon, Back to Basics.

Removes any nonland permanent — the Vindicate, Beast Within, Generous Gift category. Most flexible single-target removal.

Specifically damages, destroys, or shuts down planeswalkers.

Specifically damages, destroys, or shuts down planeswalkers.

Specifically removes planeswalkers.

Removalmechanical

Answers an opponent's threat by destroying, exiling, bouncing, or otherwise removing a permanent or spell.

Tax or prevent spellcasting — Rule of Law, Thalia, Sphere of Resistance.

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernlegal
pioneerlegal
standardnot legal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
paupernot legal
historiclegal
explorernot legal
alchemynot legal

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Printings (11)

Rulings

2019-05-03

You can choose any number of the modes for Casualties of War, but you can't choose a mode more than once.

2019-05-03

Each target permanent is destroyed in the order specified. Abilities that trigger when one is destroyed won't be put onto the stack until Casualties of War has finished resolving.