Flash
Instant
You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you do, sacrifice it unless you pay its mana cost reduced by 
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.No tactic transforms a battle like a well-timed carnivore.
Illustrated by Naomi Baker · Masters 25 (A25)
Legalities
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Banned
- Vintage
- Restricted
- Duel Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
Printings
Rulings
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If the creature has
in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0. -
Only the generic mana in that creature's mana cost is reduced. For example, if that creature's mana cost is
, you'll have to pay to keep it. -
The creature enters the battlefield, so it will trigger enters-the-battlefield abilities even if you choose not to pay.
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If you choose not to pay, the creature is sacrificed immediately. No player will get priority in between the creature entering the battlefield and being sacrificed. Sacrificing the creature this way will trigger any abilities that trigger when it leaves the battlefield, and those abilities will be put onto the stack at the same time as those that triggered when it entered the battlefield.
Archetypes that play this card
Duel Commander
- Aminatou, the Fateshifter 100.0% of lists
- Terra, Magical Adept 100.0% of lists
- Atraxa, Grand Unifier 50.0% of lists
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- Glarb, Calamity's Augur 33.3% of lists
Vintage
- Entomb 100.0% of lists
- Oath of Druids 71.0% of lists