In Memoriam: Jaya Ballard
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Every card in this drop
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- Card Kingdom $4.49 foil $5.49
- Cardmarket €2.38 foil €3.29
- Mana Pool $3.49 foil $3.60
- TCGplayer $3.50 foil $3.76
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- Card Kingdom $7.49 foil $10.99
- Cardmarket €5.14 foil €5.44
- Mana Pool $8.07 foil $7.99
- TCGplayer $7.80 foil $7.67
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- Card Kingdom $39.99 foil $42.99
- Cardmarket €32.50 foil €32.22
- Mana Pool $27.75 foil $45.96
- TCGplayer $42.02 foil $51.70
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- Card Kingdom $15.99 foil $17.99
- Cardmarket €8.45 foil €8.22
- Mana Pool $26.57 foil $18.45
- TCGplayer $16.18 foil $18.66
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- Card Kingdom $5.99 foil $7.49
- Cardmarket €4.76 foil €4.59
- Mana Pool $5.44 foil $6.37
- TCGplayer $5.70 foil $7.68
The Store Price Against Buying the Cards One at a Time
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| Drop | Version | Store Price | Cards One at a Time | Cheaper |
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| In Memoriam: Jaya Ballard | Foil | Price when it launched: $39.99, from a saved copy of the Secret Lair store page (Wayback Machine). | $89.47 | The store, by $49.48 |
| In Memoriam: Jaya Ballard | Non-foil | Price when it launched: $29.99, from a saved copy of the Secret Lair store page (Wayback Machine). | $75.20 | The store, by $45.21 |
Rulings for the Cards on This Page
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19 rulings for 4 cards
Jaya Ballard
Because it’s a loyalty ability, Jaya’s first ability isn’t a mana ability. It can be activated only any time you could cast a sorcery. It uses the stack and can be responded to.
Mana produced by Jaya’s first ability can be spent among any number of instant and/or sorcery spells.
You choose how many cards to discard while Jaya’s second ability is resolving. You can choose to discard zero cards this way (and then draw zero cards) if you wish.
Jaya’s emblem doesn’t grant you permission to do anything with instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard except cast them. For example, you can’t cycle instant or sorcery cards with cycling from your graveyard.
Jaya's Immolating Inferno
You can't cast a legendary sorcery unless you control a legendary creature or a legendary planeswalker. Once you begin to cast a legendary sorcery, losing control of your legendary creatures and planeswalkers won't affect that spell.
You can't target the same target more than once to have Jaya's Immolating Inferno deal more damage to it.
Other than the casting restriction, the legendary supertype on a sorcery carries no additional rules. You may cast any number of legendary sorceries in a turn, and your deck may contain any number of legendary cards (but no more than four of any with the same name).
Pyretic Ritual
In the same vein, you can cast Pyretic Ritual only at a time when you could cast any other instant, not at a time when you could activate a mana ability. For example, you can’t cast Pyretic Ritual in the midst of casting another spell; you’d need to cast Pyretic Ritual first.
Pyretic Ritual is not a mana ability and doesn’t behave like one. You cast it as a spell. It uses the stack. It can be responded to, and it can be countered.
Pyromancer's Goggles
The delayed triggered ability will trigger whether Pyromancer's Goggles is still on the battlefield or not.
If the copied spell is modal (that is, it says "Choose one –" or the like), the copy will have the same mode or modes. You can't choose a different one.
The mana produced by Pyromancer's Goggles can be spent on anything, not just a red instant or sorcery spell.
A copy is created even if the spell cast with the red mana produced by Pyromancer's Goggles has been countered or otherwise left the stack without resolving by the time that ability resolves. The copy resolves before the original spell.
The copy will have the same targets as the spell it's copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. The new targets must be legal.
Any red instant or sorcery spell you spend the mana on will be copied, not just one that requires targets.
You can't choose to pay any additional costs for the copy. However, effects based on any additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy too.
If more than one red mana produced by a Pyromancer's Goggles is spent to cast a single red instant or sorcery spell, the delayed triggered ability associated with each mana spent will trigger. That many copies will be created. It doesn't matter if this red mana was produced by one Pyromancer's Goggles or by multiple Pyromancer's Goggles.
The copy is created on the stack, so it's not "cast." Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger.
If the copied spell has an X whose value was determined as it was cast, the copy has the same value of X.
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