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Pain // Suffering

First printed in Invasion (2000)

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  • Dominaria Remastered (DMR) #209, 2023 David Martin
  • Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas (DDH) #72, 2011 David Martin
  • Invasion (INV) #294, 2000 David Martin

Pain // Suffering

Pain

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

Suffering

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

Illustrated by
David Martin

Legality

Legal in
Legacy, Vintage, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, PreDH, Oathbreaker
Not legal in
Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, Tiny Leaders, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl

Rulings (7)
  • Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of sorcery cards in your graveyard, Assault // Battery counts once, not twice.
  • Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both.
  • If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast a sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Assault this way, but not Battery.
  • If you copy a spell that's half of a split card, the copy copies that same half. For example, if you copy Assault, the copy is also Assault, not Battery.
  • A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Assault // Battery has a mana value of 5 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Assault // Battery.
  • To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of this split card.
  • Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack.

Prices

Paper price: €0.05 / $0.13 , the cheapest non-foil print (Cardmarket, and TCGplayer, otherwise Mana Pool or Card Kingdom, through MTGJSON, 5 Nov 2026).

MTGO price: 0.004 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 5 Nov 2026).