Rules questions on Master of Predicaments
Asked by OcelotProblems 10 years ago
So, I absolutely love Master of Predicaments
and have vowed to make a wacky deck using him to mentally abuse my opponent. However, during deck building I keep asking myself, how does this guy interact with things like X casting cost, or bestow, or overload.
My gut tells me he just casts the basic spell and it will have X = 0, and you won't be able to use bestow or overload. But I'd love to hear others thoughts. It seems like it would be broken with certain cards that have a casting cost below 4, and above, as your opponent will always be wrong. Again, my gut tells me that it is just wishful thinking.
Some examples: Hypnotic Siren , Curse of the Swine , Cyclonic Rift .
Unforgivn_II says... #2
CMC is always the number of mana in the top right corner. Alternate casting costs never effect the CMC of a card. And X is always 0 when taking CMC into effect. The examples you listed, in their respective order are CMC 2, 1, and 2. And if you do cast them for free, you may not cast them for their alternate costs. So Curse of the Swine would have 0 targets, Hypnotic Siren would be a 1/1 Flyer, and Cyclonic Rift would bounce one nonland permanent.
Also, rules questions belong in the MTG Q&A, which is in the header bar.
August 6, 2014 1:25 p.m.
OcelotProblems says... #3
That's what I thought, just wanted confirmation. Can't believe I missed the Q&A header... I was tunnel visioned in the forums. Thanks for the help.
August 6, 2014 1:28 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #4
Rules questions belong in the Q&A, which is linked in the header bar. I can't move this to the Q&A, so it's getting moved to BE.
kriskurse says... Accepted answer #1
The converted mana cost of a card is in the top right hand corner of a card. That is what Master of Predicaments looks for when resolving his trigger. In this situation, X spells would count X as Zero, and wouldn't take into account alternative costs like Overload or Bestow.
August 6, 2014 1:23 p.m.