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Alternative Cost

Lets you a spell by paying some other cost instead of its mana cost, like life, a card from your hand, or nothing at all.

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A tag is one thing a card does, on its own, in a vacuum. Tags are the building blocks archetypes are made of.

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CastTo cast a spell is to put it on the stack and pay its cost, usually from your hand. Playing a land is not casting, and a copy of a spell is not cast either.Open the full glossary