“"You may enter the city—once the toll is paid."”
Kicker
Gatekeeper of Malakir
Card Rules and Details
Card Type: Creature — Vampire Warrior
Mana Cost: {B}{B}
Oracle Rules Text: Kicker {B} (You may pay an additional {B} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Flavor Text: "You may enter the city—once the toll is paid."
Set: Foundations (#752), Rarity: Uncommon, Artist: Karl Kopinski
Creature
Black
Uncommon
$0.25
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Historical Printings & Sets (1)
1 Languages
Official Rulings (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.
2024-11-08
The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
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.
2024-11-08
If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
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.
2024-11-08
If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
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