First printed in Guilds of Ravnica (2018)
Sorcery
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target player.
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)
- Illustrated by
- Randy Vargas
- Watermark
- Izzet
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Pauper Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Standard Brawl
Rulings (5)
- If an effect allows you to pay an alternative cost rather than a spell's mana cost, you may pay that alternative cost when you jump-start a spell. You'll still discard a card as an additional cost to cast it.
- If a card with jump-start is put into your graveyard during your turn, you'll be able to cast it right away if it's legal to do so, before an opponent can take any actions.
- If the target creature or the target player is an illegal target as Gravitic Punch tries to resolve, the creature won't deal damage.
- You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions when casting a spell with jump-start, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using jump-start only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
- A spell cast using jump-start will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it's countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 31 Oct 2026).
Combos
12 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature…: Gravitic Punch + Kalamax, the Stormsire + Reverberate
- Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature…: Gravitic Punch + Increasing Vengeance + Kalamax, the Stormsire
- Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature…: Expansion // Explosion + Gravitic Punch + Kalamax, the Stormsire
- Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature…: Gravitic Punch + Kalamax, the Stormsire + Twincast
- Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature…: Gravitic Punch + Kalamax, the Stormsire + Return the Favor
- Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature…: Gravitic Punch + Insidious Will + Kalamax, the Stormsire
- Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature…: Fury Storm + Gravitic Punch + Kalamax, the Stormsire
- Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature…: Gravitic Punch + Kalamax, the Stormsire + Reiterate
- Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature…: Gravitic Punch + Kalamax, the Stormsire + Refuse // Cooperate
- Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature…: Fork + Gravitic Punch + Kalamax, the Stormsire