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Semblance Anvil
Card Information
Type: Artifact
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: Scars of Mirrodin (SOM)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 201
Oracle Text
Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonland card from your hand. Spells you cast that share a card type with the exiled card cost {2} less to cast.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- January 1, 2011
Spells you cast that share multiple card types with the exiled card still cost just {2} less to cast. They don't get a greater cost reduction.
Source: wotc - January 1, 2011
Semblance Anvil takes the total cost to cast a spell into account, not just its mana cost. This includes additional costs (such as kicker) and alternative costs (such as evoke). It also includes cost increases from other sources (such as Lodestone Golem's ability).
Source: wotc - January 1, 2011
Semblance Anvil's cost reduction effect is mandatory.
Source: wotc - January 1, 2011
Semblance Anvil can reduce the amount you pay for a spell's cost that includes {X}. For example, Blaze is a sorcery that costs {X}{R}. If the card exiled with Semblance Anvil is a sorcery, and you want to cast Blaze with X equal to 5, you'll have to pay only {3}{R}. This is true even if the ability states that {X} must be paid with a certain color of mana (as Drain Life does).
Source: wotc - January 1, 2011
Semblance Anvil won't affect the part of a spell's cost represented by colored mana symbols. For example, a spell that normally costs {1}{U} to cast would cost {U} if it shared a card type with the exiled card.
Source: wotc - January 1, 2011
Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, kindred, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.
Source: wotc
Price History
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