Break Under Pressure
Instant
Target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control. You gain 2 life.
"Please, do take it personally."
—Ingris Stingerquill
Illustrated by Jeff Miracola · Reality Fracture (FRA)
Legalities
- Standard
- Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Duel Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
Printings
Rulings
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Consider all creatures and planeswalkers the target opponent controls as one group to see which one has the greatest mana value. For example, if the opponent controls a creature with mana value 3 and a planeswalker with mana value 5, they must sacrifice the planeswalker.
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Which creature or planeswalker will be sacrificed is determined as Break Under Pressure resolves.
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Break Under Pressure targets only the opponent, not any permanent. A permanent with hexproof may be sacrificed this way if its mana value is the greatest, for example.
Archetypes that play this card
Standard
- Dimir Control 68.4% of lists