Xander's Pact
Mana value6TypeSorcery
Color identity Black
RarityRare
SetNew Capenna Commander (NCC)
ArtistHelge C. Balzer
Price€0.28 · $0.28Xander's Pact
Each opponent exiles the top card of their library. You may cast spells from among those cards this turn. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to that spell's mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
Legality
Rulings
2022-04-29
If you cast a spell for another cost “rather than pay its mana cost,” you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs such as a blitz cost. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as a casualty cost. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast it.
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If a spell has 
in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
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Casualty N means “As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power N or greater.” and “When you cast this spell, if a casualty cost was paid for it, copy it. If the spell has any targets, you may choose new targets for the copy.”
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You may sacrifice only one creature to pay a spell's casualty cost, and you copy the spell only once.
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If you pay the casualty cost of a spell, the copy will resolve before the original spell.
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The copy of the spell is created on the stack, so it's not “cast.” Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger.
