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Contest of Claws, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander printing
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander LCC · No. 12 2023-11-17

Card text

{1}{G}
Sorcery
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to another target creature. If excess damage was dealt this way, discover X, where X is that excess damage. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Keywords: Discover
EDHREC rank #4987 Rare Not on the Reserved List
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The 2 printings

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Standard ∅ Not legal
Pioneer ∅ Not legal
Modern ∅ Not legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ∅ Not legal
Historic ∅ Not legal
Timeless ∅ Not legal
Alchemy ∅ Not legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ∅ Not legal
Penny ∅ Not legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

10 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

Some spells and abilities that cause you to discover may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve and you won't discover.

2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast

When you discover, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether you cast the exiled card or put it into your hand.

2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast

If you discover an adventurer card, split card, or modal double-faced card, you might be able to cast that card with either set of characteristics depending on the effect's discover value. For example, if you discover 4 and reveal Galvanic Giant (an adventurer card from Wilds of Eldraine with a mana value of 4), you could cast Galvanic Giant, but not Storm Reading (its Adventure, which has a mana value of 7). If you discover 7 and reveal Galvanic Giant, you could cast either Galvanic Giant or Storm Reading.

2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast

Excess damage has been dealt to a creature if the damage dealt to it is greater than lethal damage. Usually, this means damage greater than its toughness, although damage already marked on the creature is taken into account.

2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast

A spell's mana value is determined only by its mana cost. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions.

2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast

If you can't cast the discovered card (perhaps because there are no legal targets for the spell), you'll put it into your hand.

2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast

The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If discover allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half (as long as its mana value is less than or equal to the effect's discover value) but not both halves.

2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast

You exile the cards face up. All players will be able to see them.

2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast

If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost", you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast it.

2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast

If the discovered card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast

All printings

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Rare
Tapt's Canadian calculation. How to read these prices
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Tapt's Canadian calculation. How to read these prices
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