Spellbinder
Card Information
Type: Artifact — Equipment
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: Darksteel (DST)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 143
Oracle Text
Imprint — When this Equipment enters, you may exile an instant card from your hand. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Equip {4}
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- March 1, 2005
The creation of the copy and then the casting of the copy are both optional.
Source: wotc - December 1, 2004
Spellbinder's second ability allows you to create a copy of the imprinted instant card in the Exile zone (that's where the imprinted instant card is) and then cast it without paying its mana cost.
Source: wotc - December 1, 2004
Spellbinder imprints a card only once, when it enters. Attaching Spellbinder to a creature doesn't trigger its "enters" ability.
Source: wotc - December 1, 2004
You don't pay the spell's mana cost. If the spell has X in its mana cost, X is 0. You do pay any additional costs for that spell. You can't use any alternative costs.
Source: wotc - December 1, 2004
If the copied card is a split card, you choose which one side of it to cast, but you can't cast both sides. You can choose the other side later in the game, though.
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.