Users questions

Can you copy an X spell?

Can you copy an X spell?

When you cast a spell with X in it’s cost, it is saved into the cost of the card when you cast it (like X = some number). When you copy this, all information, including the X is copied over. So yes, it will retain the damage for X.

Does Narset’s reversal counter the spell?

Narset’s Reversal and the copy resolve before the original spell would have resolved. If a spell is returned to its owner’s hand, it’s removed from the stack and thus will not resolve. The spell isn’t countered; it just no longer exists. This works against a spell that can’t be countered.

Can you copy a kicked spell?

Kicker costs don’t change a spell’s mana cost or converted mana cost. If a kicked spell is copied, the copy is also kicked.

What does X mean in magic?

In other cases, X is defined by the text of a spell or ability. If X isn’t defined, the controller of the spell or ability chooses the value of X. All Xs on an object have the same value. A mana cost of means that you pay twice X. If you want X to be 3, you pay 6 for the in the spell’s mana cost.

What is the CMC of a kicked spell?

The converted mana cost of a kicked Shivan Fire is five, so you’d have to pay 5R to copy it using the guildmage. edit: incorrected!

Does copying a spell count as casting it?

706.10 To copy a spell, activated ability, or triggered ability means to put a copy of it onto the stack; a copy of a spell isn’t cast and a copy of an activated ability isn’t activated. (See rule 601, “Casting Spells.”) Choices that are normally made on resolution are not copied.

Can Fork target itself?

Fork does not let you make non-targeting choices about the spell. If the spell being copied targets a spell on the stack, it is possible to target Fork itself since Fork is still on the stack when you pick the target(s) for the copy. Note that the copy’s target will be illegal when it resolves.

Does Storm Trigger prowess?

So, for example: Isochron Scepter and Eye of the Storm trigger Prowess because they state the spell is being cast. The copies created by Precursor Golem’s ability are not cast, so they don’t trigger Prowess.

Do clones copy CMC?

Does a clone also copy CMC? Technically, no, but it copies mana cost which CMC is usually derived from. If CMC was copiable, a Clone copying the back face of a DFC would have its CMC, but because it doesn’t the Clone’s CMC is 0.

Does clone copy mana cost?

The Clone is a colorless 2/2 creature with no name, no types, no abilities, and no mana cost. It will still be face up.

Do token copies have CMC?

Generally, tokens have a converted mana cost of 0 because they do not have a mana cost. This makes cards like Displacement Wave and Steel Hellkite (a Commander favorite) incredibly effective against tokens. The one exception is token copies, that is, tokens produced as a copy of another permanent.

Do token copies have devotion?

Yes. Each of the Pack Rat copies will have a mana cost of 1B, which counts for devotion to black. Most tokens (like Elspeth’s Soldier tokens) don’t have a mana cost because the effect creating them doesn’t specify one.

Do lands have a CMC?

Lands have no mana cost, and the CMC of an object that has no mana cost is 0.

Can Sun Titan return lands?

Whenever Sun Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, you may return target permanent card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Lands don’t have a mana cost, so they’re a converted mana cost zero. Zero is less than 3, so it’s a valid permanent for Sun Titan to bring back.

Does UGIN exile lands?

Ugins ability hits anything with color. Lands have no color, so they dont get exiled. Yes, Ugin is colourless and would trigger his sanctum.

What is the converted mana cost of land?

The converted mana cost of a land card is 0.

How are converted mana costs calculated?

The converted mana cost of an object is determined by counting the total amount of mana in its mana cost, regardless of color. Special mana symbols: {W/U} adds 1, {2/W} adds 2, {W/P} adds 1. treated as 0 if the object is not on the stack, and X is treated as the number chosen for it if the object is on the stack.

Are hybrid mana cards multicolor?

Yes Rakdos Cackler and others with hybrid mana cost are multicolored regardless of how they are paid for.

Can you use hybrid mana in Commander?

First, you are limited to cards that have mana symbols on them that match the mana symbols on your commander’s card. The rule, though, applies only to mana symbols. Hybrid cards have both mana symbols on them, meaning that you can’t play a hybrid card unless you are playing both of its colors.

What is hybrid mana?

Hybrid mana (also known as half-half mana) is a type of mana first introduced in Ravnica: City of Guilds. Each hybrid mana symbol represents a cost which can be paid with one of two colors.

Can color mana pay colorless mana?

This mana could only be used to pay for costs that don’t require color (for example artifacts). ), meaning that a player can use that number of any mana (colored or colorless) to pay for it. Though one can use colorless mana to pay for generic mana costs, they are not the same thing.

Is colorless mana the same as wastes?

Colorless mana doesn’t work any differently (colorless is still not a color, and you can’t pick “colorless” if asked to pick a color). Wastes taps for 1 colorless mana. It’s also Basic, so you can have more than 4 in a deck. It has no subtypes, so you can’t pick “Wastes” if asked to choose a basic land type.

Do you need wastes to cast kozilek?

The key to cards like Kozilek, the Great Distortion is that you don’t need an actual copy of Wastes to cast it, but the card also can’t be cast off of battle lands or traditional basic lands.

How do you cast kozilek the great distortion?

So, Kozilek, the Great Distortion can be cast by paying two colorless mana and eight other mana.

Are wastes a basic land type?

Because Wastes is a basic land, you can include as many of them as you like in your Constructed decks. In Limited events (including Sealed Deck and Booster Draft), Wastes must be in your card pool to be included in your deck. You can’t add Wastes to your card pool in the same way that you can add other basic lands.

Can myriad landscape get wastes?

Wastes doesn’t have a land type. This means we can’t search up two Wastes with Myriad Landscape since they don’t share a type with each other. TL;DR – You can find one Wastes with Myriad Landscape, but not two.