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Xander's Pact

Card Name

Xander's Pact

Mana Cost

4

Type

Sorcery

Rarity

Rare

rules Text

Casualty 2Each opponent exiles the top card of their library. You may cast spells from among those cards this turn. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to that spell's mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

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

Rulings

(4/29/2022)
If you cast a spell for another cost "rather than pay its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs such as a blitz cost. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as a casualty cost. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast it.
(4/29/2022)
If a spell has
X
 in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
(4/29/2022)
Casualty N means "As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power N or greater." and "When you cast this spell, if a casualty cost was paid for it, copy it. If the spell has any targets, you may choose new targets for the copy."
(4/29/2022)
You may sacrifice only one creature to pay a spell's casualty cost, and you copy the spell only once.
(4/29/2022)
If you pay the casualty cost of a spell, the copy will resolve before the original spell.
(4/29/2022)
The copy of the spell is created on the stack, so it's not "cast." Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger.