Tentative Connection
Card Information
Type: Sorcery
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO)
Rarity: Common
Collector Number: 138
Oracle Text
This spell costs {3} less to cast if you control a creature with menace. Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- April 17, 2020
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Tentative Connection). The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
Source: wotc - April 17, 2020
Once you announce that you're casting Tentative Connection, no player may take actions until the spell has been paid for. Notably, opponents can't try to change whether you control a creature with menace.
Source: wotc - April 17, 2020
Tentative Connection can target any creature, even one that you already control or that is already untapped.
Source: wotc - April 17, 2020
Tentative Connection is unaffected if you no longer control a creature with menace after you've cast it. You won't have to pay an additional {3}.
Source: wotc
Price History
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