Dead Drop
Sorcery
Got a diving lesson —Sultai expression meaning "was fed to the crocodiles"
Artist:
Greg StaplesShare:
Text:
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)Target player sacrifices two creatures.
Rulings:
- 9/20/2014 The target player chooses which creatures they will sacrifice as Dead Drop resolves. If the player controls only one creature at that time, they will sacrifice it.
- 9/20/2014 Dead Drop doesn’t target any creature. The target player could sacrifice a creature with hexproof, for example.
- 9/20/2014 The rules for delve have changed slightly since it was last in an expansion. Previously, delve reduced the cost to cast a spell. Under the current rules, you exile cards from your graveyard at the same time you pay the spell’s cost. Exiling a card this way is simply another way to pay that cost.
- 9/20/2014 Delve doesn’t change a spell’s mana cost or converted mana cost. For example, Dead Drop’s converted mana cost is 10 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.
- 9/20/2014 You can’t exile cards to pay for the colored mana requirements of a spell with delve.
- 9/20/2014 You can’t exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can’t exile more than nine cards from your graveyard to cast Dead Drop.
- 9/20/2014 Because delve isn’t an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.
Legality:
- standard: Not legal
- future: Not legal
- frontier: Legal
- modern: Legal
- legacy: Legal
- pauper: Not legal
- vintage: Legal
- penny: Legal
- commander: Legal
- duel: Legal
- oldschool: Not legal
Sets:
- Khans of Tarkir #67 (uncommon)