{"id":3540,"date":"2013-07-15T12:36:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T19:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:54:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:54:35","slug":"elite-arcanist-and-x-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2013\/07\/elite-arcanist-and-x-spell\/","title":{"rendered":"Elite Arcanist and X Spell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"You know what sounds fun? Getting rid of the 2 mana restriction on Isochron Scepter<\/a>, and making it a creature. In Magic 2014, they did that, and gave us Elite Arcanist<\/a>. Unlike his Scepter predecessor, Arcanist has no limit on the mana cost of the Instant he flings about willy-nilly, so you can happily put expensive and fun things on him to use every turn. But how does he work with X spells, like Sphinx’s Revelation<\/a>? Do you get to pay mana into X?\u00a0Do you get to decide what X is and get it for free? The answer to both is, sadly, no. Outside of the stack (which includes exile, where Arcanist keeps his spells), the value of X in a mana cost is always 0. So a Sphinx’s Revelation<\/a> underneath your Arcanist always has a CMC of 0, and it’ll cost 3 mana to use Arcanist to cast a copy. The problem is, since you’re casting the copy for free, you aren’t ALLOWED to put anything into X, it must be 0. So Arcanist doesn’t work very well with X spells, since they’re not likely to do much! Do note that you’re still allowed to pay ADDITIONAL costs when you cast your free spells from Arcanist, just not alternate ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know what sounds fun? Getting rid of the 2 mana restriction on , and making it a creature. In Magic 2014, they did that, and gave us . Unlike his Scepter predecessor, Arcanist has no limit on the mana cost of the Instant he flings about willy-nilly, so you can happily put expensive and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[148,108,29,67],"tags":[980],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-3540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-activatedabilities","category-casting-playing-a-spell-ability","category-copies","tag-elite-arcanist","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4574,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions\/4574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}