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A Little Chat

A Little Chat

Instant

uncommon

Casualty 1 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 1 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.) Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

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Semantic Tags

Card Drawmechanical

Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.

Draw-then-discard or discard-then-draw effects that improve hand quality without net card advantage.

Power Mattersmechanical

Cares about power of creatures — Fling effects, power-based draw, Xenagos strategies.

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.

Cares about or manipulates the top card(s) of your library. Includes scry, surveil, and top-deck payoffs.

Topdeck Mattersmechanical

Cares about or manipulates the top of library — Sensei's Top, miracles, Future Sight.

Format Legality

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

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Printings (1)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Streets of New Capenna#47uncommon···

Related Concepts

Casualty

A keyword ability that allows you to sacrifice a creature to create a copy of a spell. See 702.153, “Casualty.”

Related Rules

702.153

Casualty

702.153a

Casualty is a keyword that represents two abilities. The first is a static ability that functions while the spell with casualty is on the stack. The second is a triggered ability that functions while the spell with casualty is on the stack. Casualty N means “As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power N or greater,” and “When you cast this spell, if a casualty cost was paid for it, copy it. If the spell has any targets, you may choose new targets for the copy.” Paying a spell’s casualty cost follows the rules for paying additional costs in rules 601.2b and 601.2f–h.

702.153b

If a spell has multiple instances of casualty, each is paid separately and triggers based on the payments made for it, not any other instance of casualty.

Rulings

2022-04-29

You may sacrifice only one creature to pay a spell's casualty cost, and you copy the spell only once.

2022-04-29

If there's only one card in your library as A Little Chat resolves, you'll put it into your hand.

2022-04-29

If you pay the casualty cost of a spell, the copy will resolve before the original spell.

2022-04-29

Casualty N means “As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power N or greater.” and “When you cast this spell, if a casualty cost was paid for it, copy it. If the spell has any targets, you may choose new targets for the copy.”

2022-04-29

The copy of the spell is created on the stack, so it's not “cast.” Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger.