Metallic Rebuke
Instant
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for
.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Illustrated by Eric Deschamps ยท Kaladesh Remastered (KLR)
Legalities
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Duel Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Legal
Printings
Rulings
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When calculating a spell's total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Improvise applies after the total cost is calculated.
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Improvise doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.
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Improvise can't pay for
in Metallic Rebuke's total cost.
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If an artifact you control has a mana ability with
in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with improvise will result in the artifact being tapped when you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for improvise. Similarly, if you sacrifice an artifact to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with improvise, that artifact won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for improvise.
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Tapping an artifact won't cause its abilities to stop applying unless those abilities say so.
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Equipment attached to a creature doesn't become tapped when that creature becomes tapped, and tapping that Equipment doesn't cause the creature to become tapped.
Archetypes that play this card
Duel Commander
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch 100.0% of lists
Modern
- Hammer Time 100.0% of lists
- Grinding Station 88.9% of lists
- Affinity 78.8% of lists
Show 3 more Modern archetypes
- Izzet Steel-Cutter 75.0% of lists
- Song of Creation 33.3% of lists
- Other 3.1% of lists
Pauper
- Dimir Affinity 33.3% of lists
- Azorius Affinity 5.6% of lists
- Grixis Affinity 2.7% of lists
Pioneer
- Other 1.6% of lists