If you choose to pay the dash cost rather than the mana cost, you're still casting the spell. It goes on the stack and can be responded to and countered. You can cast a creature spell for its dash cost only when you otherwise could cast that creature spell. Most of the time, this means during your main phase when the stack is empty.
You don't have to attack with the creature with dash unless another ability says you do.
If a creature enters the battlefield as a copy of or becomes a copy of a creature whose dash cost was paid, the copy won't have haste and won't be returned to its owner's hand.
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This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from DTK — 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 *Dragons of Tarkir*, the set that shipped alongside the March 2015 Dragons of Tarkir release.
Card type: Creature — Imp, color identity black, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {2}{B} (3 converted). Keyword abilities: Flying and Dash.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #22,360 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Torstein Nordstrand. Rarix catalogs 43 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Torstein Nordstrand
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If you pay the dash cost to cast a creature spell, that card will be returned to its owner's hand only if it's still on the battlefield when its triggered ability resolves. If it dies or goes to another zone before then, it will stay where it is.
