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.
Throes of Chaos
When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled.
You exile the cards face up. All players will be able to see them.
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from SLD — the lineup includes Borderless 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 #2703 of *Secret Lair Drop*, the set that shipped alongside the June 2026 Secret Lair Drop release.
Card type: Sorcery, color identity red, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {3}{R} (4 converted). Keyword abilities: Retrace and Cascade.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #5,469 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Wizard of Barge. Rarix catalogs 36 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Wizard of Barge
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