Card Codex

Mages' Contest

Scryfall

1RR · Instant

You and target spell's controller bid life. You start the bidding with a bid of 1. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid. If you win the bidding, counter that spell.

Similar cards

Name	Mana	Type	Text
Shepherd of Rot	1B	Creature — Zombie Cleric	{T}: Each player loses 1 life for each Zombie on the battlefield. 1/1
Phyrexian Unlife	2W	Enchantment	You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. As long as you have 0 or less life, all damage is dealt to you as though its source had infect. (Damage is dealt to you in the form of poison counters.)
Ambiguity	2UU	Enchantment	Whenever a player plays a spell that counters a spell that has been played or a player plays a spell that comes into play with counters, that player may counter the next spell played or put an additional counter on a permanent that has already been played, but not countered.
Glorious Gale	1U	Instant	Counter target creature spell. If it was a legendary spell, the Ring tempts you.
Axis of Mortality	4WW	Enchantment	At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have two target players exchange life totals.
Tethered Skirge	2B	Creature — Phyrexian Imp	Flying Whenever Tethered Skirge becomes the target of a spell or ability, you lose 1 life. 2/2
Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant	2W	Legendary Creature — Fox Monk	When you have 30 or more life, flip Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant. 2/2
Dawnglow Infusion	XG/W	Sorcery	You gain X life if {G} was spent to cast this spell and X life if {W} was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if {G}{W} was spent.)
Luminarch Ascension	1W	Enchantment	At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if you didn't lose life this turn, you may put a quest counter on Luminarch Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.) {1}{W}: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if Luminarch Ascension has four or more quest counters on it.
Essence Vortex	1UB	Instant	Destroy target creature unless its controller pays life equal to its toughness. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.