If you’re casting a plotted card from exile without paying its mana cost, you can’t choose to cast it for any other alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the plotted card has any mandatory additional costs, those must still be paid to cast the spell.
When Beastbond Outcaster enters the battlefield, its triggered ability will check to see if you control a creature with power 4 or greater. If you don’t, the ability won’t trigger at all. If the ability does trigger, it will check again as it tries to resolve. If you no longer control a creature with power 4 or greater (usually because the applicable creature is no longer on the battlefield), the ability won’t do anything.
Plot abilities are written “Plot [cost],” which means “Any time you have priority during your main phase while the stack is empty, you may pay [cost] and exile this card from your hand. It becomes plotted.”
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This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from OTJ — 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 #154 of *Outlaws of Thunder Junction*, the set that shipped alongside the April 2024 Outlaws of Thunder Junction release.
Card type: Creature — Human Druid, color identity green, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {2}{G} (3 converted). Keyword abilities: Plot.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #17,484 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Viko Menezes. Rarix catalogs 185 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Viko Menezes
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If a plotted 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 can’t cast a plotted card on the same turn it became plotted. On any future turn, you may cast that card from exile without paying its mana cost during your main phase while the stack is empty.
Exiling a card using its plot ability is a special action. Once you announce you’re taking that action, no other player can respond by trying to remove that card from your hand.
