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Ice Cauldron

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Card Name:

Ice Cauldron

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Artifact

Card Text:

X,ocT: Put a charge counter on Ice Cauldron, and put a spell card face up on Ice Cauldron. Note the type and amount of mana used to pay this activation cost. Use this ability only if there are no charge counters on Ice Cauldron. You may play that spell card as though it were in your hand.

ocT: Remove the charge counter from Ice Cauldron to add mana of the type and amount last used to put a charge counter on Ice Cauldron to your mana pool. This mana is usable only to cast the spell on top of Ice Cauldron.

Expansion:

Ice Age

Rarity:

Rare

All Sets:

Artist:

Dan Frazier

Language:

English

Rulings

10/4/2004	The Cauldron counts only mana spent on it. It doesn't see the value of X, so isn't affected by cost reductions. Thus, if you spent on X, you get later even if X was 6.
10/4/2004	Cards which are not actually in your hand can't be exiled by the Ice Cauldron.
10/4/2004	If multiple cards are exiled by the Cauldron, the mana can only be used for the card that was exiled by the Cauldron when the most recent charge counter was put there.
10/4/2004	The mana put in the Cauldron can only be used to cast the given spell, but you can add additional mana to a spell. This means you can pay part of the cost on one turn and the rest of it on the next turn.
10/4/2004	You do not have to use any mana from the Cauldron when casting the spell if you don't want to. You don't even have to tap the Cauldron and draw the mana, you can just cast the spell using mana from somewhere else.
10/4/2004	If multiple cards are exiled by the Cauldron, any one of them can be cast.
10/4/2004	If the ability to exile a card with the Cauldron is countered, you do not lose the card since it is exiled during resolution.
10/4/2004	It is possible to have more than one card exiled by the Cauldron. You can tap the Cauldron to remove the charge counter and whatever mana is on it but leave the card there. Later, you can tap it and put in mana and a charge counter to add another card.
10/4/2004	X can be zero. This places a zero mana counter on the Cauldron.
10/4/2004	You can only cast the spell when you could legally cast it normally. So no casting a sorcery on your opponent's turn.
10/4/2004	The mana can be used to pay for additional costs to cast the spell.
10/4/2004	If the Cauldron leaves the battlefield, you can still cast any cards it exiled as though they were in your hand. You just no longer have access to the mana you charged the Cauldron with.
10/4/2004	Tapping the Cauldron for the mana is a mana ability.
10/4/2004	Produces mana of the last type used to put a counter on itself, not via any other charge counters.