Card text
As an additional cost to cast red permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {R} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of red mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a red permanent spell, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.
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Mana cost
{2}{R}{R}
Power / toughness
4/4
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Card text
As an additional cost to cast red permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {R} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of red mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a red permanent spell, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Defiler of Instinct
This page covers the extended art printing of Defiler of Instinct (406), a Red Creature — Phyrexian Kavu from Dominaria United (DMU). It is printed at Rare rarity. The one keyword in its text is First strike. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy and Vintage and 5 more formats.
We track no other printing of 406 in this set, so there is no base card here to compare its price with.
Dominaria United is a main expansion, released September 2022. Defiler of Instinct has 2 other cards in the database, listed further down the page.
First strike As an additional cost to cast red permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {R} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of red mana you pay. Whenever you cast a red permanent spell, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.
Card details
- Card number
- 406
- Set
- Dominaria United (DMU)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 9 September 2022
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Extended Art
- Type line
- Creature — Phyrexian Kavu
- Colour
- Red
- Colour identity
- Red
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}{R}
- Power / toughness
- 4/4
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Defiler of Instinct
Other printings of Defiler of Instinct in Dominaria United
The same card in other art and frames from this set — priced in the United States.
Defiler of Instinct in other sets
Every other printing with this name, one per set.
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