Using Bring to Light to cast Den Protector

Asked by tonycheat9 8 years ago

Hi can you cast Bring to Light and cast a morphed Den Protector ?

FancyTuesday says... #1

No. Bring to Light offers you an alternate casting cost to cast the spell you've exiled with it as part of it resolving, putting a creature with morph onto the battlefield for is another alternate casting cost. You can only choose one alternate casting cost when casting a spell, and the one provided by morph is not available for that card because the ability to cast spells it not normally available to cards in exile, it is only being cast as part of Bring to Light's resolution.

October 10, 2015 9:24 p.m.

Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #2

@FancyTuesday: The last part of your answer is incorrect.

The reason you can't cast the card for its morph cost is indeed that you may pay only one alternate cost while casting a spell. But the key concept here is that Bring to Light prescribes which alternate cost must be paid in order to cast the card in this situation. If Bring to Light merely created a rule that allowed you to cast the card from exile instead of from your hand, then you would be able to pay any alternate cost you wanted to because you would not be bound to using "without paying its mana cost."

October 10, 2015 10:19 p.m.

FancyTuesday says... #3

@ Epochalyptik: Too right. I was fumbling to put that into words, I guess I would've liked to say "because there's nothing allowing you to cast that card from exile" but your wording is clearer and covers more.

October 10, 2015 10:35 p.m. Edited.