Printings
Sunscape Familiar
Card Information
Type: Creature — Wall
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Planeshift (PLS)
Rarity: Common
Collector Number: 17
Oracle Text
Defender (This creature can't attack.) Green spells and blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- October 4, 2004
Can never affect the colored part of the cost.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
If a spell is both green and blue, you pay {1} less, not {2} less.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
The generic X cost is still considered generic even if there is a requirement that a specific color be used for it. For example, “only black mana can be spent this way”. This distinction is important for effects which reduce the generic portion of a spell’s cost.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
The lower cost is not optional like with some other cost reducers.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
The effect is cumulative.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
If this card is sacrificed to pay part of a spell’s cost, the cost reduction still applies.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
This can lower the cost to zero, but not below zero.
Source: wotc
Price History
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