Cunning Nightbonder
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SetIKO
Collector #219
Released2020-04-24
Rarityuncommon
ArtistEkaterina Burmak
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Cunning Nightbonder

UncommonColour IDMV 2
Creature — Human Rogue
Flash
Spells with flash you cast cost less to cast and can't be countered.
2 / 2
Keywords
Flash
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (7)
wotc17 Apr 2020
Cunning Nightbonder's cost reduction applies only to generic mana in a spell's cost. It can't reduce a spell's colored mana requirements. For example, your first Cunning Nightbonder won't normally reduce the cost of your second since it has no generic mana in its cost.
wotc17 Apr 2020
Players can't attempt to remove Cunning Nightbonder to raise the cost of a spell you wish to cast, but they can remove it to allow their spells and abilities to counter your spells.
wotc17 Apr 2020
A spell or ability that counters spells can still target spells with flash you cast. When that spell or ability resolves, your spell won't be countered, but any additional effects of the countering spell or ability will still happen.
wotc17 Apr 2020
If Cunning Nightbonder enters the battlefield while a spell with flash that you cast is on the stack, that spell can't be countered, even though you don't get the {1} discount.
wotc17 Apr 2020
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Cunning Nightbonder). The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
wotc17 Apr 2020
Cunning Nightbonder's last ability doesn't apply to itself while it's a spell.