Rancorous Archaic
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Secrets of StrixhavenSOS · #2
- Card type
- Creature — Avatar
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.06 € · ★ 0.06 € · 0.10 $ · ★ 0.16 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
Reach, trample Converge — This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.
Format legality
- AlchemyLegal
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- FutureLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- StandardLegal
- StandardbrawlLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Loïc Canavaggia
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2026-04-24
Flavour text
As the giant shadow loomed, the Forum of Amity fell silent for the first time in its history.
Rulings
If a spell with a converge ability is copied, no mana was spent to cast the copy, so the number of colors of mana spent to cast the spell will be zero. The number of colors spent to cast the original spell is not copied.
If there are any alternative or additional costs to cast a spell with a converge ability, the colors of mana spent to pay those costs will count.
If you cast a spell with converge without spending any mana to cast it (perhaps because an effect allowed you to cast it without paying its mana cost), then the number of colors spent to cast it will be zero.
The maximum number of colors of mana you can spend to cast a spell is five. Colorless is not a color. Note that the cost of a spell with converge may limit how many colors of mana you can spend.
Unless a spell or ability allows you to, you can't choose to pay more mana for a spell with a converge ability just to spend more colors of mana. Likewise, if a spell or ability reduces the amount of mana it costs you to cast a spell with converge, you can't ignore that cost reduction in order to spend more colors of mana.