If an effect allows you to cast a spell without paying its mana cost, you can't choose to cast it and pay unless another rule or effect allows you to cast that spell for a cost. Similarly, you can't waive a cost reduction unless that effect says you may.
If an instant or sorcery spell has an adamant ability, you perform the spell's instructions in order. You don't perform the adamant instruction before the spell resolves or before any other effects printed above it.
If you copy a spell that has an adamant ability, no mana was spent to cast the copy at all, so that ability won't apply.
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This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from ELD — 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 #394 of *Throne of Eldraine*, the set that shipped alongside the October 2019 Throne of Eldraine release.
Card type: Instant, color identity red, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {2}{R} (3 converted). Keyword abilities: Adamant.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #20,461 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Heonhwa. Rarix catalogs 228 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Heonhwa
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Adamant effects check what mana was actually spent to cast a spell. If an effect allows you to spend mana “as though it were mana” of any color or type, that allows you to spend mana you couldn't otherwise spend, but it doesn't change what mana you spent to cast the spell.
