You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can't exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can't exile more than seven cards from your graveyard to cast Treasure Cruise unless an effect has increased its cost.
Because delve isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.
Delve doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value. For example, Treasure Cruise's mana value is 8 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from KTK — 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 #81y of *Khans of Tarkir*, the set that shipped alongside the December 2023 Khans of Tarkir release.
Card type: Instant, color identity black, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {4}{B} (5 converted). Keyword abilities: Delve.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #7,790 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Andrew Mar. Rarix catalogs 466 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Andrew Mar
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