If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the card.
Epic Experiment
You cast the cards one at a time, choosing modes, targets, and so on. The last card you cast will be the first one to resolve.
If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from PIO — 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 #223 of *Pioneer Masters*, the set that shipped alongside the December 2024 Pioneer Masters release.
Card type: Sorcery, color identity red/blue, printed at mythic. Mythic rares historically land in roughly one out of every eight boosters at standard print densities. Mana cost: {X}{U}{R} (2 converted).
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #5,867 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Dan Murayama Scott. Rarix catalogs 1,317 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Dan Murayama Scott
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