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Spellbinder

Mana cost{3} Mana value3TypeArtifact — Equipment Color identity{C} Colorless RarityRare SetDarksteel (DST) ArtistRon Spencer Price€0.87 · foil €8.61 · $6.21

Spellbinder {3}

Artifact — Equipment
Imprint — When this Equipment enters, you may exile an instant card from your hand.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
Equip {4}
EquipImprint

Legality

CommanderLegalStandardNot legalPioneerNot legalModernLegalLegacyLegalVintageLegalPauperNot legalBrawlNot legalOathbreakerLegalHistoricNot legalTimelessNot legalPenny DreadfulLegal

Rulings

2005-03-01
The creation of the copy and then the casting of the copy are both optional.

2004-12-01
Spellbinder's second ability allows you to create a copy of the imprinted instant card in the Exile zone (that's where the imprinted instant card is) and then cast it without paying its mana cost.

2004-12-01
You don't pay the spell's mana cost. If the spell has X in its mana cost, X is 0. You do pay any additional costs for that spell. You can't use any alternative costs.

2004-12-01
If the copied card is a split card, you choose which one side of it to cast, but you can't cast both sides. You can choose the other side later in the game, though.

2004-12-01
Spellbinder imprints a card only once, when it enters. Attaching Spellbinder to a creature doesn't trigger its "enters" ability.