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Blessed Alliance

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What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

Escalate 2 (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)

Choose one or more —

• Target player gains 4 life.

• Untap up to two target creatures.

• Target opponent sacrifices an attacking creature of their choice.

Rulings

9 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2016-07-13

    If one target of an escalate spell becomes illegal, the other targets will still be affected. If all of the targets become illegal, the spell won’t resolve.

  • 2016-07-13

    You can’t choose any one mode multiple times.

  • 2016-07-13

    Additional costs don’t affect a spell’s mana value.

  • 2016-07-13

    You choose all of your modes at once. You can’t wait to perform one mode’s actions and then decide to choose more modes.

  • 2016-07-13

    Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.

  • 2016-07-13

    Untapping an attacking creature doesn’t cause it to be removed from combat.

  • 2016-07-13

    If two of the chosen modes of an escalate spell target a creature, you may choose the same creature for each mode’s target, or choose different creatures. The same is true if the chosen modes target a player (or opponent).

  • 2016-07-13

    The targeted opponent chooses which of their attacking creatures to sacrifice, not you.

  • 2016-07-13

    If an effect allows you to cast a spell that has escalate without paying its mana cost, you pay escalate costs for that spell if you choose more than one mode.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Blessed Alliance, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Selesnya 1 deck

Every version of Blessed Alliance

1 printing, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Blessed Alliance. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.