Printings
Flash
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Masters 25 (A25)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 57
Oracle Text
You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you do, sacrifice it unless you pay its mana cost reduced by {2}.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- March 16, 2018
Only the generic mana in that creature's mana cost is reduced. For example, if that creature's mana cost is {1}{R}, you'll have to pay {R} to keep it.
Source: wotc - March 16, 2018
The creature enters the battlefield, so it will trigger enters-the-battlefield abilities even if you choose not to pay.
Source: wotc - March 16, 2018
If the creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
Source: wotc - March 16, 2018
If you choose not to pay, the creature is sacrificed immediately. No player will get priority in between the creature entering the battlefield and being sacrificed. Sacrificing the creature this way will trigger any abilities that trigger when it leaves the battlefield, and those abilities will be put onto the stack at the same time as those that triggered when it entered the battlefield.
Source: wotc
Price History
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