If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Tormenting Voice, those must be paid to cast the card.
Any of the cards you don’t play will remain in exile.
If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $0.22. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.10 and $0.23 across 54 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from C17 — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #12 of *Commander 2017*, the set that shipped alongside the August 2017 Commander 2017 release.
Card type: Creature — Human Wizard, color identity blue, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {4}{U}{U} (6 converted).
Legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
EDHrec ranks this card #22,685 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by John Stanko. Rarix catalogs 321 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. John Stanko
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You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions for cards you cast this way.
If no spells have been cast in the turn you activate Magus of the Mind’s ability, X is one.
You may play a land exiled this way only if you have an available land play this turn.
