To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an overload cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
If you don't pay the overload cost of a spell with overload, that spell will have a single target. If you pay the overload cost, the spell won't have any targets.
Because a spell with overload doesn't target when its overload cost is paid, it may affect permanents with hexproof or with protection from the appropriate color.
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This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from RTR — 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 #38 of *Return to Ravnica*, the set that shipped alongside the October 2012 Return to Ravnica release.
Card type: Instant, color identity blue, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {U} (1 converted). Keyword abilities: Overload.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #21,010 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast. Rarix catalogs 890 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Ryan Pancoast
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If you are instructed to cast a spell with overload "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to pay its overload cost instead.
