Transcendent Archaic
Card Information
Type: Creature — Avatar
Mana Cost: 7
CMC: 7
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 5
Oracle Text
Vigilance Converge — When this creature enters, you may draw X cards, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell. If you draw one or more cards this way, discard two cards.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- March 20, 2026
If you cast a spell with converge without spending any mana to cast it (perhaps because an effect allowed you to cast it without paying its mana cost), then the number of colors spent to cast it will be zero.
Source: wotc - March 20, 2026
If there are any alternative or additional costs to cast a spell with a converge ability, the colors of mana spent to pay those costs will count.
Source: wotc - March 20, 2026
If a spell with a converge ability is copied, no mana was spent to cast the copy, so the number of colors of mana spent to cast the spell will be zero. The number of colors spent to cast the original spell is not copied.
Source: wotc - March 20, 2026
The maximum number of colors of mana you can spend to cast a spell is five. Colorless is not a color. Note that the cost of a spell with converge may limit how many colors of mana you can spend.
Source: wotc - March 20, 2026
Unless a spell or ability allows you to, you can't choose to pay more mana for a spell with a converge ability just to spend more colors of mana. Likewise, if a spell or ability reduces the amount of mana it costs you to cast a spell with converge, you can't ignore that cost reduction in order to spend more colors of mana.
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.