Deadly Alliance
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Zendikar Rising #96 · Illustrated by Kieran Yanner
Zendikar Rising #96 · Illustrated by Kieran YannerWhat is Deadly Alliance worth?
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Oracle text
This spell costs 
less to cast for each creature in your party. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
"He could handle any one of us, but he's no match for all of us!"
Format legality
The only printing of Deadly Alliance
| Printing | Rarity | Non-foil | Foil | Cardmarket (EUR) | My collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Zendikar Rising znr #96· 2020common· Cardmarket €0.07 · €0.17 foil | common | $0.16 | $0.23 | €0.07€0.17 foil |
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Card details
- First printed
- 2020
- Printings
- 1
- Mana value
- 5
- EDHREC rank
- #12,945 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
- Artist
- Kieran Yanner
What the codes mean
The small print at the bottom of the Zendikar Rising card (#96).
096 · ZNR · C · EN
- 096Collector number: this card's place in the set list. Main-set cards print it over the set's card count.
- ZNRSet code for Zendikar Rising
- CCommon
- ENPrinted in English
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Card breakdown
The parts of Deadly Alliance, read from the Zendikar Rising printing. Tap a label to highlight its line. How to read any Magic card.
- Top: name and cost
- Art and type line
- Text box
- Bottom: stats and the info line
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Top: name and cost
Art and type line
Text box
Bottom: stats and the info line
Also on this card
- Flavor text
- Italic story text below the rules. It has no effect on the game, and it can differ between printings.
Rulings (5)
2020-09-25
Several cards have a cost reduction based on the number of creatures in your party. To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
2020-09-25
An ability referring to the number of creatures in your party gets a number from zero to four. Such abilities never ask which creatures are in your party, and you never have to designate specific creatures as being in your party. You can't choose to exclude creatures from this count to lower the number.
2020-09-25
If a spell has a cost reduction based on the number of creatures in your party, no player may attempt to change that number after you begin to cast the spell but before you pay the cost.
2020-09-25
If a creature has more than one party creature type, and there are multiple ways to count that creature that could result in a different number of creatures in your party, the highest such number is used. For example, if you control a Cleric and a Cleric Wizard, the number of creatures in your party is two. You can't choose to have it be just one by counting the Cleric Wizard first as a Cleric.
2020-09-25
To determine "the number of creatures in your party," check whether you control a Cleric, whether you control a Rogue, whether you control a Warrior, and whether you control a Wizard. The number is the total number of those checks to which you answered yes. Each creature you control can be counted for only one of those checks.
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