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Karn's Sylex
MythicMV 3
Legendary Artifact
Karn's Sylex enters tapped.
Players can't pay life to cast spells or to activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.
, , Exile Karn's Sylex: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less. Activate only as a sorcery.
Card capabilities
Artifact
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Primary formats
Eternal formats
Other printings
2 other English printingsEarliest 2022-09-09Newest 2022-09-09Cheapest priced $1.79 in PDMU
Rulings (5)
wotc9 Sept 2022
An activated mana ability is one that produces mana as it resolves, not one that costs mana to activate.
wotc9 Sept 2022
Other things may still cause players to pay life, such as a resolving spell or ability.
wotc9 Sept 2022
Players may always pay 0 life, even if an effect says they can’t pay life.
wotc9 Sept 2022
If a spell or an activated ability that isn’t a mana ability has a cost that requires a player to pay life, that spell or ability can’t be cast or activated.
wotc9 Sept 2022
Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keyword abilities are activated abilities (such as cycling) and will have colons in their reminder text.
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