Collective Defiance
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Escalate 1 (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Target player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards.
• Collective Defiance deals 4 damage to target creature.
• Collective Defiance deals 3 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
Rulings
7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2016-07-13
Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.
- 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.
- 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
You can’t choose any one mode multiple times.
- 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
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.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Collective Defiance, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muerra, Trash Tactician | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Gruul 1 deck
Collective Defiance price history
The Innistrad Remastered #149 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.30 | $0.36 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $0.30 | $0.36 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $0.29 | $0.36 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.31 | $0.36 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.32 | $0.36 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.33 | $0.36 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.32 | $0.36 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.33 | $0.36 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.33 | $0.37 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Collective Defiance
4 printings, 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. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $0.30
- Foil
- $0.36
Showcase
Breaking News
- Normal
- $0.31
- Foil
- $0.39
- Normal
- $0.20
- Foil
- $1.14
Promo
Eldritch Moon Promos
- Foil
- $1.99
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Collective Defiance. 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.
