Archway of Innovation
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Card Name:
Archway of Innovation
Types:
Land
Card Text:
Archway of Innovation enters tapped unless you control an Island.
Tap: Add Blue.
Blue, Tap: The next spell you cast this turn has improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast that spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for 1.)
Expansion:
Rarity:
Rare
Card Number:
350
Artist:
Rulings
6/7/2024 You must already control an Island as Archway of Innovation enters the battlefield for it to enter untapped. If it enters the battlefield at the same time as an Island when you control no other Islands, it will enter tapped.
6/7/2024 Multiple instances of improvise are redundant.
6/7/2024 When calculating a spell's total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Improvise applies after the total cost is calculated. Improvise doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.
6/7/2024 If an artifact you control has a mana ability with Tap in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with improvise will result in the artifact being tapped before you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for improvise. Similarly, if you sacrifice an artifact to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with improvise, that artifact won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for improvise.
6/7/2024 Because improvise isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.
6/7/2024 When using improvise to cast a spell with Variable Colorless in its cost, first choose the value for X. That choice, plus any cost increases or decreases, will determine the spell's total cost. Then you can tap artifacts you control to help pay that cost. For example, if you activate the last ability of Archway of Innovation and then cast Wrath of the Skies (a spell with mana cost Variable ColorlessWhiteWhite), choosing 3 as the value of X, the total cost is 3WhiteWhite. If you tap two artifacts, you'll have to pay 1WhiteWhite.
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