---
name: "Close Encounter"
mana_cost: "{1}{G}"
cmc: 2
type_line: "Instant"
colors: ["G"]
color_identity: ["G"]
keywords: []
set: "EOE"
set_name: "Edge of Eternities"
collector_number: "176"
rarity: "uncommon"
artist: "Inkognit"
oracle_id: "032fdd08-2ea7-442e-8162-0a8e5a585253"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/close-encounter-eoe"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Close Encounter
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{G}` (CMC: 2)
- **Type:** Instant

## Oracle Text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, choose a creature you control or a warped creature card you own in exile.
Close Encounter deals damage equal to the power of the chosen creature or card to target creature.

> *Many mistake terrasymbiotic philosophy as pacifism. They are rarely wrong twice.*

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Monstrous Emergence](/printing/monstrous-emergence-dsk.md) — Sorcery
2. [Charge of the Forever-Beast](/printing/charge-of-the-forever-beast-iko.md) — Sorcery
3. [Cosmic Hunger](/printing/cosmic-hunger-mom.md) — Instant
4. [Feral Encounter](/printing/feral-encounter-pwoe.md) — Sorcery
5. [Ambuscade](/printing/ambuscade-2x2.md) — Instant
6. [Quarrel](/printing/quarrel-hob.md) — Instant

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Edge of Eternities (EOE) #176
- **Rarity:** Uncommon
- **Artist:** Inkognit
- **Total Printings:** 6 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`