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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
- Card type
- Artifact
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.18 € · ★ 0.78 € · 0.26 $ · ★ 0.83 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Black Red
Card text
You may pay and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. This artifact enters tapped. : Add or .
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Ralph Horsley
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2009-04-30
Rulings
As you cast a spell, you get a chance to activate mana abilities before you pay that spell's costs. Therefore, you may tap a basic land for mana, then both spend that mana and return that land to your hand to pay this card's alternative cost. (Of course, you can return a different basic land instead.)
Casting this card by paying its alternative cost doesn't change when you can cast it. You can cast it only at the normal time you could cast an artifact spell. It also doesn't change the spell's mana cost or mana value. The only difference is the cost you actually pay.
Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast this card will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay.
To satisfy the alternative cost, you may return any basic land you control to its owner's hand, regardless of that land's subtype or whether it's tapped.