Contest of Claws (Commander: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan) Near Mint

Contest of Claws — Precision Damage, Rewarded Discovery

Contest of Claws is a crisp green sorcery that turns your creature's power into both removal and card advantage. You pick a creature you control and direct damage equal to its power at another creature. If the attacker overkills its target you do not just clear a board slot you also get to discover a spell equal to the excess, which keeps momentum in midrange and tempo builds.

In practice this is a two for one when you can safely attack with an evasive or pumped creature. Use Contest of Claws to trade up against larger blockers or to enable sacrifice and death triggers while digging for the answer you need. The printed discover trigger is straightforward and rewards careful planning around combat math and removal sequencing in Commander pods.

Card Details:

• Mana Cost – {1}{G}
• Card Type – Sorcery
• Subtypes –
• Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to another target creature. If excess damage was dealt this way, discover X, where X is that excess damage. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value X or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
• Power / Toughness –