Light Up the Stage
Sorcery
$0.30
Market price
29
Public decks
Rules Text
"Places, everyone!" —Judith
Card Facts
Legality
Brawl
LegalCommander
LegalCompetitive Brawl
LegalDuel Commander
LegalGladiator
LegalHistoric
LegalLegacy
LegalModern
LegalOathbreaker
LegalPioneer
LegalTimeless
LegalTLR
LegalVintage
LegalAlchemy
Not legalFuture
Not legalOld School
Not legalPauper
Not legalPauper Commander
Not legalPenny Dreadful
Not legalPreDH
Not legalPremodern
Not legalStandard
Not legalStandard Brawl
Not legalRulings
- Jan 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast
In a multiplayer game, if an opponent loses life and later that turn leaves the game, you can cast a spell for its spectacle cost. (If a player leaves the game during their turn, that turn continues without an active player.)
- Jan 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast
Spectacle doesn't change when you can cast the spell. For example, you can't cast a sorcery with spectacle during an opponent's turn unless another effect allows you to do so, even if that player has lost life this turn.
- Jan 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as a spectacle 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.
- Jan 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast
A card's spectacle cost is the same no matter how much life your opponents lost or how many opponents lost life.
- Jan 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast
Damage dealt to a player causes that player to lose that much life.
- Jan 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast
Spectacle cares only that an opponent lost life during the turn, not that the opponent's life total is currently lower than it was. For example, if an opponent loses 1 life and then gains 2 life in the same turn, you can cast a spell for its spectacle cost that turn.
- Jan 25, 2019 · Wizards of the Coast
Casting an exiled card causes it to leave exile. You can't cast it multiple times.
- Jan 25, 2019 · Wizards of the Coast
If you don't play a card exiled this way, it remains in exile.
- Jan 25, 2019 · Wizards of the Coast
Light Up the Stage doesn't change when you can play the exiled cards. For example, if you exile a sorcery card, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty. If you exile a land card, you can play it only during your main phase and only if you have an available land play remaining.
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Decks using this card
29 public decks run Light Up the Stage; here are the 8 most recently updated.






