4. 8 Easy Steps
1. Announce & move to stack
2. Announce modes, options
3. Announce targets
4. Divide or distribute
5. Determine total cost
6. Mana abilities
7. Pay cost in any order
8. Done!
5. The trouble starts... ➢ Announce &
move to stack
➢ Announce modes,
options
➢ Announce targets
➢ Divide or
distribute
➢ Determine total
cost
➢ Mana abilities
➢ Pay cost in any
order
➢ Done!
+
7. Cost!
● Additional costs
● Kicker
● Replicate
● Buyback
● 'as an additional cost'
● Etc...
AS MANY AS
YOU WANT
● Alternative costs
● Flashback
● Overload
● 'without paying its
mana cost'
● Morph
● Etc...
ONLY 1
8. ➢ Announce &
move to stack
➢ Announce modes,
options
Max. 1 alternative
Any number additional
➢ Announce targets
➢ Divide or
distribute
➢ Determine total
cost
➢ Mana abilities
➢ Pay cost in any
order
➢ Done!
+
9. ➢ Announce &
move to stack
➢ Announce modes,
options
Max. 1 alternative
Any number additional
➢ Announce targets
➢ Divide or
distribute
➢ Determine total
cost
➢ Mana abilities
➢ Pay cost in any
order
➢ Done!
10. ➢ Announce &
move to stack
➢ Announce modes,
options
Max. 1 alternative
Any number additional
➢ Announce targets
➢ Divide or
distribute
➢ Determine total
cost
➢ Mana abilities
➢ Pay cost in any
order
➢ Done!
+
11. ➢ Announce &
move to stack
➢ Announce modes,
options
Max. 1 alternative
Any number additional
➢ Announce targets
➢ Divide or
distribute
➢ Determine total
cost
➢ Mana abilities
➢ Pay cost in any
order
➢ Done!
12. Total Cost
Total Cost
=
Mana cost or alternative cost
+
Additional costs
+
Cost increases
–
Cost reductions
As modified by options
like phyrexian mana or X
13. ➢ Announce &
move to stack
➢ Announce modes,
options
Max. 1 alternative
Any number additional
➢ Announce targets
➢ Divide or
distribute
➢ Determine total
cost
➢ Mana abilities
➢ Pay cost in any
order
➢ Done!
+
14. ➢ Announce &
move to stack
➢ Announce modes,
options
Max. 1 alternative
Any number additional
➢ Announce targets
➢ Divide or
distribute
➢ Determine total
cost
➢ Mana abilities
➢ Pay cost in any
order
➢ Done!
15. And then there are some
other things...
➢ Announce &
move to stack
➢ Announce modes,
options
Max. 1 alternative
Any number additional
➢ Announce targets
➢ Divide or
distribute
➢ Determine total
cost
➢ Mana abilities
➢ Pay cost in any
order
➢ Done!
Bestow:
Alternative Cost
Changes type and
adds 'Enchant' ability
Suspend:
Special action
16. ➢ Announce &
move to stack
➢ Announce modes,
options
Max. 1 alternative
Any number additional
➢ Announce targets
➢ Divide or
distribute
➢ Determine total
cost
➢ Mana abilities
➢ Pay cost in any
order
➢ Done!
Morph
+
17. ➢ Announce &
move to stack
➢ Announce modes,
options
Max. 1 alternative
Any number additional
➢ Announce targets
➢ Divide or
distribute
➢ Determine total
cost
➢ Mana abilities
➢ Pay cost in any
order
➢ Done!
Turning face-down
Paying 3
18. Max. 1 alternative
cost
Any number of
additonal costs
Convoke
➢ Announce &
move to stack
➢ Announce modes,
options
➢ Announce targets
➢ Divide or
distribute
➢ Determine total
cost
➢ Mana abilities
➢ Pay cost in any
order
➢ Done!
Morph and Suspend
Mana / alternative cost
(as modified by
options) + additional
costs + increase –
decrease, then
Trinisphere