You can exile a card in your hand using suspend any time you could cast that card. Consider its card type, any effects that modify when you could cast it (such as flash) and any other effects that stop you from casting it (such as from Meddling Mage's ability) to determine if and when you can do this. Whether you could actually complete all steps in casting the card is irrelevant. For example, you can exile a card with suspend that has no mana cost or that requires a target even if no legal targets are available at that time.
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If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," such as with suspend, you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those if you want to cast the card.
Suspend is a keyword that represents three abilities. The first is a static ability that allows you to exile the card from your hand with the specified number of time counters (the number before the dash) on it by paying its suspend cost (listed after the dash). The second is a triggered ability that removes a time counter from the suspended card at the beginning of each of your upkeeps. The third is a triggered ability that gives you the option to cast the card when the last time counter is removed.
Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $0.15. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.06 and $0.15 across 49 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from DD2 — 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 #15 of *Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra*, the set that shipped alongside the November 2008 Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra release.
Card type: Creature — Illusion, color identity blue, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {3}{U}{U} (5 converted). Keyword abilities: Flying and Suspend.
Legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
EDHrec ranks this card #17,630 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Carl Critchlow. Rarix catalogs 922 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Carl Critchlow
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