First printed in Eldritch Moon (2016)
Instant
Escalate 
(Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or both —
• Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.
• Creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.
- Illustrated by
- Volkan Baǵa
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Pauper Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, PreDH, Standard Brawl
Rulings (7)
- Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.
- 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.
- 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.
- Additional costs don’t affect a spell’s mana value.
- 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).
- 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.
- You can’t choose any one mode multiple times.
Prices
Paper price: €0.04 / $0.07 , the cheapest non-foil print (Cardmarket and TCGplayer through MTGJSON, 2 Nov 2026).
MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 2 Nov 2026).