Lively Dirge
Sorcery
Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ — Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle.
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— Return up to two creature cards with total mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
— Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle.
+ — Return up to two creature cards with total mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield."Now rip your partner from the grave, and form an undead killing wave!"
Illustrated by Warren Mahy · Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)
Legalities
- Standard
- Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Duel Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
Printings
Rulings
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If the mana cost of a card in your graveyard includes
, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value. -
The second mode doesn’t target any cards. You choose which ones you’re returning as Lively Dirge is resolving. You may choose the one you put into the graveyard with the first mode, if applicable, or ones that were already there. By the time Lively Dirge has started resolving, it’s too late for anyone to respond to it.
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Spells with spree have a + (plus sign) indicator in the upper right corner of the card frame. This has no rules meaning and serves only to remind players that at least one additional cost is required to cast the spell.
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Each additional cost and associated mode in the text box is also preceded with a + indicator. These symbols also have no rules meaning and serve only to remind players that the listed costs are additional costs.
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You must choose at least one of the listed modes and pay its associated additional cost in order to cast a spell with spree.
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You choose the modes as you cast the spell with spree. Once modes are chosen, they can’t be changed.
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If a mode requires a target, you can select that mode only if there’s a legal target available. Ignore the targeting requirements for modes you don’t choose.
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No matter which modes you choose, you always follow the instructions in the order they are written.
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You can’t choose the same mode more than once.
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The mana value of a spell with spree is determined only by its mana cost (in the upper right corner of the card). It doesn’t matter which modes you choose or which additional costs you pay, including any additional costs imposed by other effects.
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No player can cast spells or activate abilities in between the modes of a resolving spell. Any abilities that trigger won’t be put onto the stack until the spell is done resolving.
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If a spell with spree is copied, the effect that creates the copy may allow you to choose new targets. You cannot choose new modes.
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If all targets for the chosen modes become illegal before a spell with spree resolves, the spell won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. If at least one target is still legal, the spell will resolve but will have no effect on any illegal targets.
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If an effect allows you to cast a spell with spree “without paying its mana cost,” you must still choose at least one mode and pay the associated additional costs.
Archetypes that play this card
Duel Commander
- Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist 100.0% of lists
- Slimefoot and Squee 16.7% of lists
Legacy
- Oops! All Spells 100.0% of lists
Modern
- Sam Combo 5.0% of lists
- Devoted Combo 0.9% of lists
Pioneer
- Jund Sacrifice 100.0% of lists
Standard
- Jund Sacrifice 86.0% of lists
- Lifegain 3.0% of lists
- Other 1.4% of lists