Torch the Tower
Instant
Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
Torch the Tower deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If this spell was bargained, instead it deals 3 damage to that permanent and you scry 1.
If a permanent dealt damage by Torch the Tower would die this turn, exile it instead.
Illustrated by Uriah Voth ยท Wilds of Eldraine (WOE)
Legalities
- Standard
- Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Duel Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Legal
Printings
Rulings
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Torch the Tower's last replacement effect will exile the target permanent if it would die this turn for any reason, not just due to lethal damage or having 0 loyalty.
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Bargain means "As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token."
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Bargain represents an optional additional cost. A spell cast with that additional cost paid is "bargained."
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You may sacrifice only one artifact, enchantment, or token to pay a spell's bargain cost.
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If you copy a bargained spell, the copy is also bargained. If a card or token enters the battlefield as a copy of a permanent that's already on the battlefield, the new permanent isn't bargained, even if the original was.
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Some instant and sorcery spells require additional targets if they're bargained. You ignore those targeting requirements if those spells aren't bargained, and you can't bargain those spells unless you can choose the appropriate targets. On the other hand, you can bargain a permanent spell even if you won't be able to choose targets for an enters-the-battlefield ability of that permanent once the spell resolves.
Archetypes that play this card
Pauper
- Izzet Terror 25.0% of lists
- Jeskai Ephemerate 11.8% of lists
- Jund Wildfire 11.4% of lists
Pioneer
- Izzet Vivi 97.8% of lists
- Jund Artifact Sacrifice 85.0% of lists
- Temur Indomitable Creativity 30.0% of lists
Show 4 more Pioneer archetypes
- Boros Ponza 22.2% of lists
- Izzet Phoenix 8.7% of lists
- Other 8.2% of lists
- Izzet Prowess 1.2% of lists
Standard
- Tokens 100.0% of lists
- Tiger-Seal 80.0% of lists
- The Naked Time 75.0% of lists
Show 3 more Standard archetypes
- Jund Sacrifice 38.0% of lists
- Boros Control 25.0% of lists
- Other 10.1% of lists