---
name: "Collective Brutality"
mana_cost: "{1}{B}"
cmc: 2
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: []
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: ["Escalate"]
set: "INR"
set_name: "Innistrad Remastered"
collector_number: "101"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Johann Bodin"
oracle_id: "22a78443-db21-4656-b38a-e3e3186fd94b"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/collective-brutality-inr"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Collective Brutality
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{B}` (CMC: 2)
- **Type:** Sorcery
- **Keywords:** Escalate

## Oracle Text
Escalate—Discard a card. (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an instant or sorcery card from it. That player discards that card.
• Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
• Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Collective Defiance](/printing/collective-defiance-inr.md) — Sorcery
2. [Gruesome Realization](/printing/gruesome-realization-bro.md) — Sorcery
3. [Seeker's Folly](/printing/seekers-folly-fdn.md) — Sorcery
4. [Remorseless Punishment](/printing/remorseless-punishment-ogw.md) — Sorcery
5. [Urborg Syphon-Mage](/printing/urborg-syphon-mage-dmr.md) — Creature — Human Spellshaper
6. [Shredder's Revenge](/printing/shredders-revenge-tmt.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Innistrad Remastered (INR) #101
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Johann Bodin

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

## Official Rulings
- *(2016-07-13)* If an effect allows you to cast a spell that has escalate without paying its mana cost, you pay escalate costs for that spell if you choose more than one mode.
- *(2016-07-13)* You choose all of your modes at once. You can’t wait to perform one mode’s actions and then decide to choose more modes.
- *(2016-07-13)* Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.
- *(2016-07-13)* Additional costs don’t affect a spell’s mana value.
- *(2016-07-13)* If one target of an escalate spell becomes illegal, the other targets will still be affected. If all of the targets become illegal, the spell won’t resolve.
- *(2016-07-13)* You can’t choose any one mode multiple times.