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Master of Predicaments
RareColour IDMV 5
Creature — Sphinx
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, choose a card in your hand. That player guesses whether the card's mana value is greater than 4. If the player guessed wrong, you may cast the card without paying its mana cost.
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Keywords
Flying
Card capabilities
Creature
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Primary formats
Eternal formats
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Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (7)
wotc18 Apr 2017
If the card is a split card, its mana value is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If the player guesses wrong and you cast a split card this way, you may cast either half (or both halves if the card has fuse), no matter what its mana value is.
wotc18 Jul 2014
You cast the card in your hand as part of the resolution of the triggered ability. Timing restrictions based on the card's type (such as creature or sorcery) are ignored. Other restrictions, such as "Cast [this card] only during combat," are not.
wotc18 Jul 2014
If you don't cast the card, either because the player guessed right or because you choose not to cast it, you don't have to reveal it. Your opponent won't know the reason you didn't cast the card.
wotc18 Jul 2014
Although you may choose a land card in your hand, you won't be able to play it even if the player guessed wrong.
wotc18 Jul 2014
To choose a card in your hand, clearly separate it from the rest of your hand without revealing it.
wotc18 Jul 2014
If the card has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
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