If you choose to pay the impending cost of a creature spell, it's still a creature spell on the stack. You can cast that spell for its impending cost only when you could normally cast that creature spell. Most of the time, this means during your main phase when the stack is empty.
If you choose to pay the impending cost rather than the mana cost, you're still casting the spell. It goes on the stack and can be responded to, countered, and so on.
"Impending N–[cost]" is a keyword that represents multiple abilities. The official rules are as follows: (a) You may choose to pay [cost] rather than pay this spell's mana cost. (b) If you chose to pay this spell's impending cost, it enters the battlefield with N time counters on it. (c) As long as this permanent has a time counter on it, if it was cast for its impending cost, it's not a creature. (d) At the beginning of your end step, if this permanent was cast for its impending cost, remove a time counter from it.
Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $15.48. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.14 and $16.77 across 54 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from DSK — the lineup includes Showcase 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 #389 of *Duskmourn: House of Horror*, the set that shipped alongside the September 2024 Duskmourn: House of Horror release.
Card type: Enchantment Creature — Avatar Horror, color identity blue, printed at mythic. Mythic rares historically land in roughly one out of every eight boosters at standard print densities. Mana cost: {3}{U}{U} (5 converted). Keyword abilities: Flying and Impending.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #2,996 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Sansyu. Rarix catalogs 34 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Sansyu
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If an object enters as a copy of a permanent that was cast with its impending cost, it won't enter with time counters, and it will be a creature.
