Cost Reduction and Alternate Costs
Asked by funkalunk 13 years ago
Ok, so I have an Etherium Sculptor on the table, and I want to play a Mistvein Borderpost for its alternate cost, which is 1 colorless and bouncing a land. Because of the Sculptor's ability, and I pay 0 and bounce a land?
Rhadamanthus says... #2
That's right. Etherium Sculptor reduces the overall total casting cost, regardless of whether the spell's normal mana cost is being used to calculate that cost.
April 9, 2012 2:33 p.m.
KorApprentice says... Accepted answer #3
It will cost 0 and a land bounce. From the MTG Comprehensive Rulebook:
601.2e The player determines the total cost of the spell. Usually this is just the mana cost. Some spells have additional or alternative costs. Some effects may increase or reduce the cost to pay, or may provide other alternative costs. Costs may include paying mana, tapping permanents, sacrificing permanents, discarding cards, and so on. The total cost is the mana cost or alternative cost (as determined in rule 601.2b), plus all additional costs and cost increases, and minus all cost reductions. If the mana component of the total cost is reduced to nothing by cost reduction effects, it is considered to be 0. It cant be reduced to less than 0. Once the total cost is determined, any effects that directly affect the total cost are applied. Then the resulting total cost becomes locked in. If effects would change the total cost after this time, they have no effect.
April 9, 2012 2:34 p.m.
Cool! :D People were telling me otherwise lol, now I have the rules on my side! :D
April 9, 2012 2:50 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #5
Also, in agreement with the other's posts, This is from the gatherer page on the Mistvein Borderpost: "5/1/2009 Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast this card will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay."
funkalunk says... #1
"Can I pay 0"*
April 9, 2012 2:32 p.m.