Thornscape Battlemage

Mana cost

Mana value3TypeCreature — Elf Wizard Color identity

Naya RarityUncommon SetModern Masters 2017 (MM3) ArtistMatt Cavotta Price€0.07 · foil €0.22 · $0.10

About this card

Thornscape Battlemage is a creature card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 3 (color identity: green, red and white). First printed in Planeshift (2001); 7 paper printings in total. Role in Commander: removal. Legal in Commander, Modern, Legacy and Vintage. Cheapest printing: €0.07 (Modern Masters 2017); most expensive: €0.88 (World Championship Decks 2001).

Thornscape Battlemage

Creature — Elf Wizard

Kicker

and/or

(You may pay an additional

and/or

as you cast this spell.)
When this creature enters, if it was kicked with its

kicker, it deals 2 damage to any target.
When this creature enters, if it was kicked with its

kicker, destroy target artifact.

2/2

Name in each language

FrançaisMage de bataille spinosopheEnglishThornscape BattlemageEspañolMaga de guerra EscapaespinaDeutschKampfmagier des DornenpfadsItalianoMago Combattente SpinologoPortuguêsMago de Batalha de Thornscape日本語荊景学院の戦闘魔道士

Kicker Elf Wizard

Legality

CommanderLegalStandardNot legalPioneerNot legalModernLegalLegacyLegalVintageLegalPauperNot legalBrawlNot legalOathbreakerLegalHistoricNot legalTimelessNot legalPenny DreadfulLegal

Rulings

2024-11-08
If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."

2024-11-08
The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.

2024-11-08
If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.

2024-11-08
If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.

2024-11-08
If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.

2024-11-08
To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

2017-03-14
Kicker costs don't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.

2017-03-14
You choose whether to kick a spell as you cast it, and you pay that much along with the spell's mana cost at the same time. Kicking a spell is always optional.

2017-03-14
You can pay any particular kicker cost only once. You can't pay it multiple times to get multiples of either triggered ability.

2017-03-14
If Thornscape Battlemage is put onto the battlefield as the result of a spell or ability, there's no opportunity to kick it.