Printings
Biomancer's Familiar
Card Information
Type: Creature — Mutant
Mana Cost: 
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Ravnica Allegiance (RNA)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 158
Oracle Text
Activated abilities of creatures you control cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana. {T}: The next time target creature adapts this turn, it adapts as though it had no +1/+1 counters on it.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- January 25, 2019
Biomancer’s Familiar affects only abilities of creatures you control on the battlefield. The costs of activated abilities of creature cards that work in other zones (such as cycling) won’t be reduced.
Source: wotc - January 25, 2019
Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keyword abilities are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text. Triggered abilities (starting with “when,” “whenever,” or “at”) are unaffected by the cost reduction ability of Biomancer’s Familiar.
Source: wotc - January 25, 2019
An ability that has only one generic mana and some amount of other mana symbols in its activation cost will have its cost reduced by {1}.
Source: wotc - January 25, 2019
The last ability of Biomancer’s Familiar doesn’t add or remove any counters. It just lets the creature adapt despite already having +1/+1 counters on it.
Source: wotc
Price History
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