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Dance with Calamity

Red

4 printings listed in our catalog, from newest to oldest.

Dance with Calamity, Secret Lair Drop printing
Secret Lair Drop SLD · No. 2835 2026-10-12

Card text

{7}{R}
Sorcery
Shuffle your library. As many times as you choose, you may exile the top card of your library. If the total mana value of the cards exiled this way is 13 or less, you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.
"So much trouble over such a little thing, but not for long."
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The 4 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

7 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

You can look at each card you exile before deciding whether to push your luck or stop.

2023-04-14 · Wizards of the Coast

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

2023-04-14 · Wizards of the Coast

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

2023-04-14 · Wizards of the Coast

If you cast any of the exiled cards, you do so as part of the resolution of the spell. You can't wait to cast them later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on a card's type are ignored.

2023-04-14 · Wizards of the Coast

Any cards not cast, including land cards, remain in exile. They can't be cast on later turns.

2023-04-14 · Wizards of the Coast

If you cast more than one of the exiled cards, you choose the order in which to cast them. A spell you cast this way can be the target of a later spell you cast this way. However, permanent spells cast this way won't resolve until you're done casting spells, so the permanents they become can't be the target of spells cast this way. For example, if you exile Twincast and Lightning Strike, you can cast Lightning Strike and then cast Twincast targeting it; but if you exile a creature card and an Aura card, you can't cast that Aura targeting that creature.

2023-04-14 · Wizards of the Coast

If you danced with calamity a little too closely, and the total mana value of the exiled cards is greater than 13, the cards you exiled will remain there and you won't get to cast any of them.

2023-04-14 · Wizards of the Coast

All printings

Dance with Calamity, Secret Lair Drop printing
Secret Lair Drop
SLD · #2835
Rare
∅ No QC price