First printed in Eldritch Moon (2016)
All 5 prints
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Innistrad Remastered (INR) #149, 2025
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Breaking News (OTP) #21, 2024
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Shadows over Innistrad Remastered (SIR) #148, 2023 (digital)
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Eldritch Moon (EMN) #123, 2016
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Eldritch Moon Promos (PEMN) #123s, 2016
Collective Defiance 
Sorcery
Escalate (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.
- Illustrated by
- Kieran Yanner
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Standard Brawl
Rulings (7)
- Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 29 Oct 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ), Premier Draft | 55.1% | +0.9 | +2.9 | 8103 |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ), Sealed | 56.7% | +1.5 | +3.8 | 541 |
| Shadows over Innistrad Remastered (SIR), Premier Draft | 57.5% | +3.2 | +3.9 | 3778 |
- 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
