The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If discover allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half (as long as its mana value is less than or equal to the effect's discover value) but not both halves.
A spell's mana value is determined only by its mana cost. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions.
If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost", you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast it.
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This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from LCI — 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 #277 of *The Lost Caverns of Ixalan*, the set that shipped alongside the November 2023 The Lost Caverns of Ixalan release.
Card type: Land — Cave, color identity red, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Keyword abilities: Discover.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #3,666 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Logan Feliciano. Rarix catalogs 56 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Logan Feliciano
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When you discover, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether you cast the exiled card or put it into your hand.
If you discover an adventurer card, split card, or modal double-faced card, you might be able to cast that card with either set of characteristics depending on the effect's discover value. For example, if you discover 4 and reveal Galvanic Giant (an adventurer card from Wilds of Eldraine with a mana value of 4), you could cast Galvanic Giant, but not Storm Reading (its Adventure, which has a mana value of 7). If you discover 7 and reveal Galvanic Giant, you could cast either Galvanic Giant or Storm Reading.
If the discovered card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
You exile the cards face up. All players will be able to see them.
If you can't cast the discovered card (perhaps because there are no legal targets for the spell), you'll put it into your hand.
Some spells and abilities that cause you to discover may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve and you won't discover.
