First printed in March of the Machine (2023)
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Enchantment
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for 
or one mana of that creature's color.)
If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals triple that damage instead.
- Illustrated by
- Jake Murray
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Standard Brawl
Rulings (9)
- If you control two Cities on Fire, damage dealt by sources you control will be multiplied by 9. If you control three, it will be multiplied by 27, and so on.
- If an effect such as that of Chandra's Pyrohelix asks you to divide damage among targets, you must divide the unmodified damage before tripling it.
- While you control City on Fire, if a creature you control with trample would deal combat damage to a blocking creature, you must assign its unmodified damage. For example, a 3/3 creature with trample blocked by a 2/2 creature can have 1 damage assigned to the defending player. It will then deal 6 damage to the blocking creature (2 tripled) and 3 to the defending player (1 tripled).
- Tapping a multicolored creature using convoke will pay for or one mana of your choice of any of that creature's colors.
- When calculating a spell's total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Convoke applies after the total cost is calculated. Convoke doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.
- If a creature you control has a mana ability with
in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with convoke will result in the creature being tapped before you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for convoke. Similarly, if you sacrifice a creature to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with convoke, that creature won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for convoke. - Tapping an untapped creature that's attacking or blocking to convoke a spell won't cause that creature to stop attacking or blocking.
- You can tap any untapped creature you control to convoke a spell, even one you haven't controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.
- Because convoke isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March of the Machine (MOM), Premier Draft | 52.7% | -2.1 | +0.4 | 8628 |
- GIH WR
- win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
- vs set
- points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
- IWD
- improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
- Games
- games in which the card was seen
Combos
31 combos, the most popular first:
- Each opponent loses the game, Near-infinite damage: City on Fire + Heartless Hidetsugu + Platinum Angel
- Each opponent loses the game, Near-infinite damage: Chandra's Ignition + City on Fire + Malignus
- Near-infinite damage: City on Fire + Imodane, the Pyrohammer + Zada, Hedron Grinder
- Near-infinite damage, Target opponent loses the game: City on Fire + Malignus + Warstorm Surge
- Each opponent loses the game, Near-infinite damage: City on Fire + Heartless Hidetsugu + Platinum Emperion
- Near-infinite damage to one opponent, Target opponent loses the game: City on Fire + Malignus + Ziatora, the Incinerator
- Each opponent loses the game, Near-infinite damage: City on Fire + Glacial Chasm + Heartless Hidetsugu
- Each opponent loses the game, Near-infinite damage: City on Fire + Heartless Hidetsugu + Pariah's Shield
- Near-infinite damage, Target opponent loses the game: City on Fire + Malignus + Terror of the Peaks
- Near-infinite damage to one opponent, Near-infinite lifegain…: Brion Stoutarm + City on Fire + Malignus
