---
name: "Collective Defiance"
mana_cost: "{1}{R}{R}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: []
color_identity: ["R"]
keywords: ["Escalate"]
set: "INR"
set_name: "Innistrad Remastered"
collector_number: "149"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Kieran Yanner"
oracle_id: "43ddc3e8-936b-4be0-9e64-484bbbd69016"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/collective-defiance-inr"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Collective Defiance
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{R}{R}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Sorcery
- **Keywords:** Escalate

## Oracle Text
Escalate {1} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Target player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards.
• Collective Defiance deals 4 damage to target creature.
• Collective Defiance deals 3 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Collective Brutality](/printing/collective-brutality-inr.md) — Sorcery
2. [Collective Effort](/printing/collective-effort-msc.md) — Sorcery
3. [Collective Resistance](/printing/collective-resistance-mh3.md) — Instant
4. [Incendiary Command](/printing/incendiary-command-c13.md) — Sorcery
5. [Clan Defiance](/printing/clan-defiance-clu.md) — Sorcery
6. [Deface](/printing/deface-rna.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Innistrad Remastered (INR) #149
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Kieran Yanner

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

## Official Rulings
- *(2016-07-13)* Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.
- *(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)* Additional costs don’t affect a spell’s mana value.
- *(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)* You can’t choose any one mode multiple times.
- *(2016-07-13)* If two of the chosen modes of an escalate spell target a creature, you may choose the same creature for each mode’s target, or choose different creatures. The same is true if the chosen modes target a player (or opponent).