Printings
Karn's Sylex
Card Information
Type: Legendary Artifact
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: Dominaria United (DMU)
Rarity: Mythic
Collector Number: 234
Oracle Text
Karn's Sylex enters tapped. Players can't pay life to cast spells or to activate abilities that aren't mana abilities. {X}, {T}, Exile Karn's Sylex: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less. Activate only as a sorcery.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- September 9, 2022
If a spell or an activated ability that isn’t a mana ability has a cost that requires a player to pay life, that spell or ability can’t be cast or activated.
Source: wotc - September 9, 2022
Other things may still cause players to pay life, such as a resolving spell or ability.
Source: wotc - September 9, 2022
Players may always pay 0 life, even if an effect says they can’t pay life.
Source: wotc - September 9, 2022
Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keyword abilities are activated abilities (such as cycling) and will have colons in their reminder text.
Source: wotc - September 9, 2022
An activated mana ability is one that produces mana as it resolves, not one that costs mana to activate.
Source: wotc
Price History
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