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◇ Catalog #5

Battlefield Promotion

war·#5·common·nonfoil

Illus. Scott Murphy

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May '19

7 yr ago

Value

$0.09+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $0.09 · low $0.08

NM$0.09

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$0.08–$0.10modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $0.09low $0.03range 200.0%n 50

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TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #17,524 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$0.34

Nonfoil$0.09

Gameplay

Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. That creature gains first strike until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A creature with first strike deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

"Welcome to the Legion. You saved a district—now let's go save the world."

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 1

2019-05-03wotc

If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Battlefield Promotion tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. You don't gain 2 life.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $0.09. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.03 and $0.09 across 50 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from WAR — the lineup includes Foil and 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 #5 of *War of the Spark*, the set that shipped alongside the May 2019 War of the Spark release.

Card type: Instant, color identity white, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {1}{W} (2 converted).

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #17,524 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Scott Murphy. Rarix catalogs 392 other cards credited to this artist.