Unexpected results and Awaken?
Asked by toebby1 4 years ago
Can you pay the awaken cost of Clutch of Currents for free if you flip it with Unexpected Results ? I see the rulings for Unexpected states "If you cast a spell “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t pay alternative costs such as overload costs. You can pay additional costs such as kicker costs. If the card has mandatory additional costs, you must pay those." but there are two questions on tappedout, one saying you can't pay overload cost ( Cyclonic Rift ) for free and the other saying you can pay for awaken. I just want to clear this up.
xtechnetia says... Accepted answer #2
Awaken represents an alternative casting cost (Comprehensive Rules, 702.112a), and is thus subject to the rules of alternative casting costs. This means that any effect that lets you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost", like Unexpected Results , will only replace the normal casting cost with . Alternative casting costs are still what they usually are.
Note that Unexpected Results won't even let you pay alternative costs when you cast the spell you reveal. (You've already mentioned this yourself referencing the Gatherer rulings.)
August 25, 2019 2:25 a.m.
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Monomanamaniac says... #1
It's just like with overload, it replaces the casting cost. It says if you cast it for then it does awakened, but in this case you're paying , not .
August 25, 2019 1:35 a.m.