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 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.
If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from PRM — 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 #99945 of *Magic Online Promos*, the promotional run that shipped alongside the September 2022 Magic Online release.
Card type: Instant, color identity black, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {2}{B} (3 converted). Keyword abilities: Kicker.
Legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
EDHrec ranks this card #18,191 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Aaron Miller. Rarix catalogs 530 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Aaron Miller
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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 you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
Waste Management's controller will create a 2/2 black Rogue creature token for each creature card exiled this way whether it was kicked or not.
