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Sure Strike

First printed in Battle for Zendikar (2015)

All 9 prints

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Sure Strike

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

To survive imminent doom, it sometimes takes a foolhardy soul who acts first and fears later.

Illustrated by
Jakub Kasper

Legality

Prices

Paper price: €0.02 / $0.05 , 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).

Limited On MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Sure Strike in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Foundations (FDN), Premier Draft 52.4% -2.1 -1.8 25074
Foundations (FDN), Sealed 50.7% -4.4 -2.0 1084
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