If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast a sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Assault this way, but not Battery.
A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Assault // Battery has a mana value of 5 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Assault // Battery.
Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack.
Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $0.08. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.06 and $0.09 across 54 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from HOP — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #104 of *Planechase*, the set that shipped alongside the September 2009 Planechase release.
Card type: Instant // Instant, color identity red/white, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {3}{W} // {2}{R} (7 converted).
Legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
EDHrec ranks this card #18,643 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Tim Hildebrandt. Rarix catalogs 72 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Tim Hildebrandt
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Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of sorcery cards in your graveyard, Assault // Battery counts once, not twice.
Chaos will stop any creature from being declared as a blocker that turn, including ones that weren't on the battlefield as Chaos resolved.
If you copy a spell that's half of a split card, the copy copies that same half. For example, if you copy Assault, the copy is also Assault, not Battery.
Casting Chaos after blockers have been declared won't cause any of those blocks to be undone.
To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of this split card.
Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both.
