Spectacular Showdown
Spectacular Showdown: Sorcery, Murders at Karlov Manor Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{R}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Red (R)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)
- Released
- 2024-02-09
- Collector number
- 162
- Artist
- Aniekan Udofia
- Commander rank
- 2,653 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Overload, Goad
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About Spectacular Showdown
Spectacular Showdown is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare red sorcery from Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC), a Commander product released in February 2024. It is collector number 162 in that set, with art by Aniekan Udofia. It costs {1}{R} (one generic and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 2 sets, from Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (2022) to Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $2.51 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Put a double strike counter on target creature, then goad each creature that had a double strike counter put on it this way. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)
Overload {4}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $2.51 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Spectacular Showdown by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Spectacular Showdown
Spectacular Showdown has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) #634 | Rare | 2022 |
| Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) #679 | Rare | 2022 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Spectacular Showdown, newest first.
- Because a spell with overload doesn't target when its overload cost is paid, it may affect permanents with hexproof or with protection from the appropriate color.
- If you are instructed to cast a spell with overload "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to pay its overload cost instead.
- If you don't pay the overload cost of a spell with overload, that spell will have a single target. If you pay the overload cost, the spell won't have any targets.
- To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an overload cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
Similar cards
Other sorcery cards with a red colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Spectacular Showdown is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.