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Nourishing Shoal
RareColour IDMV 2
Instant — Arcane
You may exile a green card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
You gain X life.
Card capabilities
InstantLife gain
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Primary formats
Eternal formats
Digital formats
Other printings
1 other English printingEarliest 2018-12-07Newest 2018-12-07Cheapest priced $0.66 in UMA
Rulings (2)
wotc7 Dec 2018
If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, include the value chosen for that X when determining the mana value of that spell, even if it was cast for an alternative cost and no mana was spent on X.
wotc7 Dec 2018
If a card in a player's hand has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
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