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Bone Miser

Card Name

Bone Miser

Mana Cost

4

Type

Creature – Zombie Wizard

Rarity

Rare

rules Text

Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.Whenever you discard a land card, add .Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Modern, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(2/7/2025)
This creature’s abilities are triggered abilities, not activated abilities. They don’t allow you to discard a card whenever you want; rather, you need some other way of discarding a card (such as cycling).
(2/7/2025)
This creature’s second ability isn’t a mana ability. It uses the stack and can be responded to. Notably, this means that you can’t pay a cost of “
2
, Discard a card” by discarding a land card and using the produced to pay for the
2
.
(2/7/2025)
If you discard a card as a cost to cast a spell or activate an ability, this creature’s triggered ability resolves before that spell or ability but after you’ve chosen targets for it. If you discard a card while a spell or ability is resolving, the triggered ability resolves after you’ve finished resolving that spell or ability.