Printings
Synthesis Pod
Card Information
Type: Artifact
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity: 
Set: Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander (ONC)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 23
Oracle Text
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) {1}{U/P}, {T}, Exile a spell you control: Target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a card with mana value equal to 1 plus the exiled spell's mana value. Exile that card, then that player shuffles. You may cast that exiled card without paying its mana cost.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- February 4, 2023
To activate Synthesis Pod's ability, you must exile a spell you control on the stack (the only place spells exist).
Source: wotc - February 4, 2023
If a spell 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 - February 4, 2023
If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the card.
Source: wotc - February 4, 2023
If you wish to cast the card, you do so as part of the resolution of Synthesis Pod's ability. You can't wait to cast it later. Timing rules based on a card's type are ignored.
Source: wotc - February 4, 2023
The spell you exiled as part of the cost to activate Synthesis Pod's ability will remain in exile.
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.