Escalate {1} Choose one or more — • Target player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards. • Collective Defiance deals 4 damage to target creature. • Collective Defiance deals 3 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
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Additional costs don't affect a spell's mana value.
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Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.
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If an effect allows you to cast a spell that has escalate without paying its mana cost, you pay escalate costs for that spell if you choose more than one mode.
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If one target of an escalate spell becomes illegal, the other targets will still be affected. If all of the targets become illegal, the spell won't resolve.
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If two of the chosen modes of an escalate spell target a creature, you may choose the same creature for each mode's target, or choose different creatures. The same is true if the chosen modes target a player (or opponent).
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You can't choose any one mode multiple times.
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You choose all of your modes at once. You can't wait to perform one mode's actions and then decide to choose more modes.