How does cascade work?
Asked by sirtrojan 11 years ago
in the case of Maelstrom Nexus if the first card i cast in a turn only cost 2 mana, i have to find a nonland card that has 1 mana and then choose to play it or not then randomly put the exiled cards at the bottom of my deck. but what if i have no cards in my deck that cost less that 2? do i mil my self to death? or do i just go to the bottom of the deck then shuffle"randomly put on the bottom"??
Epochalyptik thanks you have been a great help to my understanding in magic overall, i figured thats what might happen. Just wanted to make sure.
September 28, 2013 7:07 a.m.
also so you know, cascade triggers when you cast the spell, not when it resolves. So when you cast a spell it'll go on the stack then you'll exile cards till you get to a spell that cost less, then you have the option to cast that spell without paying it's mana cost. If you do cast that spell then it will go on top of the stack above the original spell you cast that turn. That means the spell you cast using the cascade ability will resolve before the original spell.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1
You don't mill out because the cards aren't going to your graveyard. Even if they did, you wouldn't lose this way. You lose if you're forced to draw from an empty library, not if you're forced to reveal, mill, or exile a card from an empty library.
Regardless, you'll reveal all the cards in your library, then shuffle them and put them on the bottom of your (empty) library.
September 28, 2013 7:03 a.m.