Anticipate
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Beacon Bolt
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-10-05
Beacon Bolt is still on the stack while you count your instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard and in exile. It doesn’t count itself.
2018-10-05
If any exiled cards you own are face down, they have no characteristics. If they’re normally instants or sorceries, they won’t be counted.
2018-10-05
You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card’s type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using jump-start only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
2018-10-05
A spell cast using jump-start will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it’s countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way.
2018-10-05
If an effect allows you to pay an alternative cost rather than a spell’s mana cost, you may pay that alternative cost when you jump-start a spell. You’ll still discard a card as an additional cost to cast it.
2018-10-05
If a card with jump-start is put into your graveyard during your turn, you’ll be able to cast it right away if it’s legal to do so, before an opponent can take any actions.
Crackling Drake
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-10-05
If any exiled cards you own are face down, they have no characteristics. If they’re normally instants or sorceries, they won’t be counted.
2018-10-05
The ability that defines Crackling Drake’s power works in all zones.
Expansion
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-10-05
Expansion can copy any instant or sorcery spell with an appropriate converted mana cost, not just one with targets.
2018-10-05
If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, include the value chosen for that X when determining the converted mana cost of that spell.
2018-10-05
The copy is created on the stack, so it’s not “cast.” Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won’t trigger.
2018-10-05
The copy will have the same targets as the spell it’s copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, you can’t choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
2018-10-05
If the spell that’s copied is modal (that is, it says “Choose one —” or the like), the copy will have the same mode. A different mode can’t be chosen.
2018-10-05
If the spell that’s copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast (like Banefire does), the copy will have the same value of X.
2018-10-05
If the spell has damage divided as it was cast, the division can’t be changed (although the targets receiving that damage still can). The same is true of spells that distribute counters.
2018-10-05
The controller of a copy can’t choose to pay any alternative or additional costs for the copy. However, effects based on any alternative or additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy.
2018-10-05
If you copy a spell, you control the copy. It will resolve before the original spell does.
2018-10-05
If one of Explosion’s two targets becomes illegal, the other is affected as appropriate.
Goblin Electromancer
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2017-03-14
Two Goblin Electromancers will make instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {2} less to cast, and so on.
2018-10-05
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you’re paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The converted mana cost of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
2018-10-05
Goblin Electromancer’s effect reduces only generic mana in the spell’s total cost.
Highland Lake
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Island
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Izzet Guildgate
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2013-04-15
The subtype Gate has no special rules significance, but other spells and abilities may refer to it.
2013-04-15
Gate is not a basic land type.
Lightning Strike
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Mountain
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Niv-Mizzet, Parun
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-10-05
If an effect instructs you to draw multiple cards, Niv-Mizzet’s first triggered ability triggers that many times. You choose targets for those abilities after you’ve drawn all of the cards.
2018-10-05
If a spell or ability causes you to put cards into your hand without specifically using the word “draw,” Niv-Mizzet’s first triggered ability won’t trigger.
2018-10-05
Niv-Mizzet’s second triggered ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered. This causes its first triggered ability to trigger, and that also resolves before the spell.
2018-10-05
Players can cast spells and activate abilities after Niv-Mizzet’s second triggered ability resolves but before the spell that caused it to trigger does. Notably, the card you draw may be able to counter that spell.
Opt
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Radical Idea
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-10-05
You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card’s type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using jump-start only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
2018-10-05
A spell cast using jump-start will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it’s countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way.
2018-10-05
If an effect allows you to pay an alternative cost rather than a spell’s mana cost, you may pay that alternative cost when you jump-start a spell. You’ll still discard a card as an additional cost to cast it.
2018-10-05
If a card with jump-start is put into your graveyard during your turn, you’ll be able to cast it right away if it’s legal to do so, before an opponent can take any actions.
Shake the Foundations
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Shock
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Sunbird's Invocation
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2017-09-29
Casting Sunbird’s Invocation won’t cause its own ability to trigger.
2017-09-29
The ability of Sunbird’s Invocation resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It will resolve even if that spell is countered. If you cast a spell as part of the resolution of the ability, that spell resolves before the spell that caused the ability to trigger.
2017-09-29
For spells with {X} in their mana costs, use the value chosen for X to determine the spell’s converted mana cost.
2017-09-29
If the spell’s converted mana cost is 0, you do nothing as the ability of Sunbird’s Invocation resolves.
2017-09-29
If a revealed card in your library has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
2017-09-29
If you cast one of the revealed cards, you do so as part of the resolution of the triggered ability. You can’t wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing permissions based on the card’s type are ignored, but other restrictions (such as “Cast [this card] only during combat”) are not.
2017-09-29
If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Costly Plunder, those must be paid to cast the card.
2017-09-29
The converted mana cost of a split card, such as cards with aftermath from the Amonkhet block, is based on the combined mana cost of its two halves. The converted mana cost of the resulting spell is based only on the half you cast.
Thousand-Year Storm
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-10-05
Spells you’ve cast that were countered were still cast, and so will add copies when Thousand-Year Storm’s ability resolves for later spells in the turn.
2018-10-05
If an effect instructs you to cast multiple spells, they’re cast one at a time in any order.
2018-10-05
Thousand-Year Storm’s ability will copy any instant or sorcery spell, not just one with targets.
2018-10-05
Copies are created even if the spell that caused Thousand-Year Storm’s ability to trigger has been countered by the time that ability resolves. The copies resolve before the original spell.
2018-10-05
The copies will have the same targets as the spell they’re copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. The new targets must be legal.
2018-10-05
If the spell that’s copied is modal (that is, it says “Choose one —” or the like), the copies will have the same mode or modes. You can’t choose different ones.
2018-10-05
If the spell that’s copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast, the copies will have the same value of X.
2018-10-05
If the spell has damage divided as it was cast, the division can’t be changed (although the targets receiving that damage still can). The same is true of spells that distribute counters.
2018-10-05
You can’t choose to pay any additional costs for the copies. However, effects based on any additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy too.
2018-10-05
The copies that Thousand-Year Storm’s ability creates are created on the stack, so they’re not “cast.” Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell (such as that of Thousand-Year Storm itself) won’t trigger.