Ice Cauldron
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This printing
SetME4
Collector #206
Released2011-01-10
Rarityrare
ArtistDan Frazier
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesReprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Ice Cauldron

RareReserved listMV 4
Artifact
, : You may exile a nonland card from your hand. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled. Put a charge counter on this artifact and note the type and amount of mana spent to pay this activation cost. Activate only if there are no charge counters on this artifact.
, Remove a charge counter from this artifact: Add this artifact's last noted type and amount of mana. Spend this mana only to cast the last card exiled with this artifact.
Card capabilities
Artifact
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
1 other English printingEarliest 1995-06-03Newest 1995-06-03Cheapest priced $1.46 in ICE
Rulings (14)
wotc4 Oct 2004
If the ability to exile a card with the Cauldron is countered, you do not lose the card since it is exiled during resolution.
wotc4 Oct 2004
The mana can be used to pay for additional costs to cast the spell.
wotc4 Oct 2004
X can be zero. This places a zero mana counter on the Cauldron.
wotc4 Oct 2004
You can only cast the spell when you could legally cast it normally. So no casting a sorcery on your opponent's turn.
wotc4 Oct 2004
Cards which are not actually in your hand can't be exiled by the Ice Cauldron.
wotc4 Oct 2004
If multiple cards are exiled by the Cauldron, the mana can only be used for the card that was exiled by the Cauldron when the most recent charge counter was put there.