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Kylox, Visionary Inventor
Card Information
Type: Legendary Creature — Lizard Artificer
Mana Cost: 5
CMC: 7
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 214
Oracle Text
Menace, ward {2}, haste Whenever Kylox attacks, sacrifice any number of other creatures, then exile the top X cards of your library, where X is their total power. You may cast any number of instant and/or sorcery spells from among the exiled cards without paying their mana costs.
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Card Rulings
- February 2, 2024
If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost", you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the spell.
Source: wotc - February 2, 2024
Use the power of the sacrificed creatures as they last existed on the battlefield to determine the value of X.
Source: wotc - February 2, 2024
You choose which spells to cast (if any) as Kylox, Visionary Inventor's last ability resolves. If you choose to cast any spells, you do so as part of the resolution of that ability. You can't wait to cast them later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on the cards' types are ignored.
Source: wotc - February 2, 2024
If the spell you cast has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
Source: wotc
Price History
To study a single card is to glimpse the heart of a spell - a frozen moment of ambition, artistry, and arcane intent. Within each glyph lies a spark: a story untold, a duel turned, a destiny altered. Treat it not as mere parchment, dear seeker, but as a shard of the Multiverse itself.