To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
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This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from PLS — 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 #21 of *Planeshift*, the set that shipped alongside the February 2001 Planeshift release.
Card type: Creature — Merfolk, color identity blue, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {1}{U} (2 converted). Keyword abilities: Kicker.
Legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, and Pauper.
EDHrec ranks this card #24,896 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Ron Spears. Rarix catalogs 438 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Ron Spears
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If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
