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Skittering Cicada
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Oracle Data
You may cast colorless spells as though they had flash.
Whenever you cast a colorless spell, until end of turn, this creature gains trample and gets +X/+X, where X is that spell's mana value.
Official Judge Precedents
If the colorless spell has 
in its mana cost, use the value chosen for X when calculating that spell's mana value.
Skittering Cicada's second ability applies only to casting spells. It does not, for example, change when you may activate abilities that can be activated "only as a sorcery."
Skittering Cicada's last ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
