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Falling Star

Sorcery2 generic manaRed mana

Dexterity cards are the design line Magic disowned. There were five in Legends and Unglued has revisited the joke since, but this is the one that gets named: a sorcery that resolves not on the stack but on the table, with the physical card itself as the targeting mechanism. Flip from at least a foot up, the card must turn completely over, and it deals 3 to whatever it lands on and taps those creatures. That is the point. It treats the playmat as the battlefield in a way no other card has been willing to since, with the spell's targets determined by hand-eye coordination and table geometry rather than choice. The tap rider is the part that gives away how seriously it was designed: this was meant to be a board-stalling Wrath-adjacent effect in red, with the damage clearing small creatures and the tap clause neutralizing the survivors for a turn. The flip mechanic priced that effect down, because you might miss. Dexterity was banned from sanctioned play not long after Legends, which left Falling Star to mark a brief window when Magic was still negotiating what kind of game it wanted to be: a card game that happened on a table, or a card game that happened on a stack. It picked the stack, and Falling Star became the monument to the road not taken.

Falling Star (leg)
LEG · #145rare
Pricing
Normal: $145.16
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Rules text

Flip Falling Star onto the playing area from a height of at least one foot. Falling Star deals 3 damage to each creature it lands on. Tap all creatures dealt damage by Falling Star. If Falling Star doesn't turn completely over at least once during the flip, it has no effect.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Banned
Vintage
Banned
Commander
Banned
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
Legal
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Banned
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Banned
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Banned
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Banned
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