Dire Tactics

Mana cost

Mana value2TypeInstant Color identity

Orzhov RarityUncommon SetIkoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO) ArtistDaarken Price€0.19 · foil €0.45 · $0.27

About this card

Dire Tactics is an instant card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 2 (color identity: black and white). Printed in Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (2020). Role in Commander: removal. Legal in Commander, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy and Vintage. Cardmarket price: €0.19.

Dire Tactics

Instant

Exile target creature. If you don't control a Human, you lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

"I will preserve human life at all costs. I will stand alone against behemoths before I let them touch my city. I will hold the wall." —Oath of the Coppercoats

Name in each language

FrançaisTactiques désespéréesEnglishDire TacticsEspañolTácticas desesperadasDeutschErbitterte TaktikItalianoTattica EstremaPortuguêsTáticas Macabras日本語不吉な戦術

Legality

CommanderLegalStandardNot legalPioneerLegalModernLegalLegacyLegalVintageLegalPauperNot legalBrawlLegalOathbreakerLegalHistoricLegalTimelessLegalPenny DreadfulLegal

Rulings

2020-04-17
Use the exiled creature’s toughness as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how much life you lose.

2020-04-17
Whether you control a Human is checked only after exiling the target creature. If that creature had exiled a Human you controlled until that creature left the battlefield, that Human will return to the battlefield in time to be counted.