If the target card is an illegal target by the time Cling to Dust tries to resolve, the spell won’t resolve. You won’t gain 3 life or draw a card.
Cling to Dust
If you cast a spell with its escape permission, you can’t choose to apply any other alternative costs or to cast it without paying its mana cost. If it has any additional costs, you must pay those.
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you’re paying (such as an escape cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was and no matter whether an alternative cost was paid.
Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $0.26. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.26 and $0.33 across 56 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from PLST — 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 #THB-87 of *The List*, the set that shipped alongside the August 2024 The List release.
Card type: Instant, color identity black, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {B} (1 converted). Keyword abilities: Escape.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #7,979 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Caio Monteiro. Rarix catalogs 311 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Caio Monteiro
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