Lantern Flare

Mana Value

2

Rarity

rare

Lantern Flare

Instant

{1}{W}
Color Identity: R W

Card Text

Cleave {X}{R}{W} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.) Lantern Flare deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life. [X is the number of creatures you control.]

Keywords

Cleave

Set

Innistrad: Crimson Vow

(VOW)

EDHREC Rank

#19,050

If you're paying the cleave cost, you choose the value of X.

Wotc β€” November 19, 2021

If you cast a spell for its cleave cost, that spell doesn't have any of the text in square brackets while it's on the stack.

Wotc β€” November 19, 2021

A cleave cost is an alternative cost that's paid instead of the spell's mana cost. Casting a spell for its cleave cost doesn't change the spell's mana value.

Wotc β€” November 19, 2021

You can't cast a spell for both its cleave cost and another alternative cost. For example, if an effect gives an Alchemist's Retrieval in your graveyard a flashback cost of {U}, you can't cast it from your graveyard for its cleave cost.

Wotc β€” November 19, 2021

If an effect allows you to β€œcast a spell without paying its mana cost,” you can't cast that spell for its cleave cost.

Wotc β€” November 19, 2021

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