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Kellan's Lightblades

Kellan's Lightblades

Instant

common

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Kellan's Lightblades deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. If this spell was bargained, destroy that creature instead.

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Semantic Tags

Burnmechanical

A spell that deals direct damage to creatures or players.

Specifically removes planeswalkers.

Removalmechanical

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

Broadly benefits from sacrificing permanents — overlaps aristocrats but includes non-creature sacrifice.

Lets you sacrifice your own creatures or permanents for value. Key enabler for aristocrats strategies.

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernlegal
pioneerlegal
standardlegal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
pauperlegal
historiclegal
explorernot legal
alchemynot legal

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Printings (1)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Wilds of Eldraine#18common···

Related Concepts

Bargain

Bargain is a keyword ability that represents an optional additional cost of sacrificing an artifact, enchantment, or token. A spell has been bargained if its controller declared the intention to pay that cost. See rule 702.166, “Bargain.”

Related Rules

702.166

Bargain

702.166a

Bargain is a static ability that functions while the spell with bargain is on the stack. “Bargain” means “As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token.” Paying a spell’s bargain cost follows the rules for paying additional costs in rules 601.2b and 601.2f–h.

702.166b

If a spell’s controller declares the intention to pay that spell’s bargain cost, that spell has been “bargained.” See rule 601.2b.

702.166c

Objects with bargain have additional abilities that specify what happens if they were bargained. These abilities are linked to the bargain ability printed on that object: they can refer only to that specific bargain ability. See rule 607, “Linked Abilities.”

Rulings

2023-09-01

You may sacrifice only one artifact, enchantment, or token to pay a spell's bargain cost.

2023-09-01

Bargain means "As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token."

2023-09-01

Bargain represents an optional additional cost. A spell cast with that additional cost paid is "bargained."

2023-09-01

Some instant and sorcery spells require additional targets if they're bargained. You ignore those targeting requirements if those spells aren't bargained, and you can't bargain those spells unless you can choose the appropriate targets. On the other hand, you can bargain a permanent spell even if you won't be able to choose targets for an enters-the-battlefield ability of that permanent once the spell resolves.

2023-09-01

If you copy a bargained spell, the copy is also bargained. If a card or token enters the battlefield as a copy of a permanent that's already on the battlefield, the new permanent isn't bargained, even if the original was.