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Soul Spike
RareColour IDMV 7
Instant
You may exile two black cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Soul Spike deals 4 damage to any target and you gain 4 life.
Card capabilities
InstantLife gain
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Primary formats
Eternal formats
Digital formats
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (3)
wotc15 Jul 2006
You may pay the alternative cost rather than the card’s mana cost. Any additional costs are paid as normal.
wotc15 Jul 2006
If you don’t have two cards of the right color in your hand, you can’t choose to cast the spell using the alternative cost.
wotc15 Jul 2006
You can’t exile a card from your hand to pay for itself. At the time you would pay costs, that card is on the stack, not in your hand.
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