Lantern Flare
Mana cost
Mana value2TypeInstant
Color identity
Boros
RarityRare
SetInnistrad: Crimson Vow (VOW)
ArtistLie Setiawan
Price€0.15 · foil €0.16 · $0.20
Mana value2TypeInstant
Color identity Boros
RarityRare
SetInnistrad: Crimson Vow (VOW)
ArtistLie Setiawan
Price€0.15 · foil €0.16 · $0.20Lantern Flare
Instant
Cleave 
(You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Lantern Flare deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life. [X is the number of creatures you control.]
(You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)Lantern Flare deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life. [X is the number of creatures you control.]
Legality
CommanderLegalStandardNot legalPioneerLegalModernLegalLegacyLegalVintageLegalPauperNot legalBrawlLegalOathbreakerLegalHistoricLegalTimelessLegalPenny DreadfulLegal
Rulings
2021-11-19
If you're paying the cleave cost, you choose the value of X.
2021-11-19
If you cast a spell for its cleave cost, that spell doesn't have any of the text in square brackets while it's on the stack.
2021-11-19
A cleave cost is an alternative cost that's paid instead of the spell's mana cost. Casting a spell for its cleave cost doesn't change the spell's mana value.
2021-11-19
You can't cast a spell for both its cleave cost and another alternative cost. For example, if an effect gives an Alchemist's Retrieval in your graveyard a flashback cost of 
, you can't cast it from your graveyard for its cleave cost.
2021-11-19
If an effect allows you to “cast a spell without paying its mana cost,” you can't cast that spell for its cleave cost.
