Ardent Plea
Ardent Plea: Enchantment, Alara Reborn. Exalted Cascade MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}{U}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colour identity
- White and blue (WU)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Alara Reborn (ARB)
- Released
- 2009-04-30
- Collector number
- 1
- Artist
- Chippy
- Keywords
- Exalted, Cascade
About Ardent Plea
Ardent Plea is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon white and blue enchantment from Alara Reborn (ARB), an expansion set released in April 2009. It is collector number 1 in that set, with art by Chippy. It costs {1}{W}{U} (one generic, one white and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. Its colour identity is white and blue. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and PreDH. It has been printed in 2 sets, from Alara Reborn (2009) to The List (2020). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.97 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-18).
Card text
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.97 (as of 2026-10-18).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Ardent Plea by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
Other printings of Ardent Plea
Ardent Plea has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #ARB-1 | Uncommon | 2023 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Ardent Plea, newest first.
- Due to a 2021 rules change to cascade, not only do you stop exiling cards if you exile a nonland card with lesser mana value than the spell with cascade, but the resulting spell you cast must also have lesser mana value. Previously, in cases where a card's mana value differed from the resulting spell, such as with some modal double-faced cards or cards with an Adventure, you could cast a spell with a higher mana value than the exiled card.
- If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the card.
- If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
- A spell's mana value is determined only by its mana cost. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions.
- The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves.
- You exile the cards face up. All players will be able to see them.
- Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade.
- When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled.
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