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Bold Defense

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two generic manaone white mana

Bold Defense

Zendikar #3 · Illustrated by Scott Chou

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Non-foil · Zendikar #3

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Oracle text

Kicker three generic manaone white mana (You may pay an additional three generic manaone white mana as you cast this spell.)

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, instead creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain first strike until end of turn.

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Card details

First printed
2009
Printings
1
Mana value
3
EDHREC rank
#30,801 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
Keywords
Kicker
Artist
Scott Chou

Rulings (8)

  1. 2009-10-01

    Only creatures you control as Bold Defense resolves are affected.

  2. 2009-10-01

    If a creature doesn't have first strike, granting it first strike after combat damage has been dealt in the first combat damage step won't prevent it from dealing combat damage. It will still assign and deal its combat damage in the second combat damage step.

  3. 2024-11-08

    If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."

  4. 2024-11-08

    If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.

  5. 2024-11-08

    To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

  6. 2024-11-08

    If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.

  7. 2024-11-08

    The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.

  8. 2024-11-08

    If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.

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