If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs, such as evoke or the alternative cost provided by the morph ability. However, you can pay optional additional costs, such as conspire, and you must still pay mandatory additional costs, such as the one on Goldmeadow Stalwart.
If you want to cast a card this way, you cast it as part of the resolution of Maelstrom Angel's triggered ability. Timing restrictions based on the card's type (such as creature or sorcery) are ignored. Other casting restrictions are not (such as “Cast [this card] only before attackers are declared”).
If you cast a card this way, you're casting it as a spell. It can be countered.
Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $2.51. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.02 and $2.51 across 47 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.
This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from CON — the lineup includes Foil and 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 #115 of *Conflux*, the set that shipped alongside the February 2009 Conflux release.
Card type: Creature — Angel, color identity black/green/red/blue/white, printed at mythic. Mythic rares historically land in roughly one out of every eight boosters at standard print densities. Mana cost: {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} (5 converted). Keyword abilities: Flying.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #6,434 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Cyril Van Der Haegen. Rarix catalogs 175 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Cyril Van Der Haegen
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If you cast a card with X in its cost this way, X must be 0.
