Spellbinder

Darksteel • #143 • rare

Artifact — Equipment |

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Live Value $6.42

Foil Multiplier: 4.45x

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Spellbinder

Darksteel • #143 • rare

Current Valuation

$6.42

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Rarity

rare

Set Origin

DST

Daily Shift

0.00%

EDHREC Rank

#15,430

Mana Cost

Oracle Data

Card Type Artifact — Equipment

Color Identity Colorless

🖋️ Curator's Notes

Imprint — When this Equipment enters, you may exile an instant card from your hand.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

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Official Judge Precedents

5 Precedents

2004-12-01

Spellbinder's second ability allows you to create a copy of the imprinted instant card in the Exile zone (that's where the imprinted instant card is) and then cast it without paying its mana cost.

2004-12-01

Spellbinder imprints a card only once, when it enters. Attaching Spellbinder to a creature doesn't trigger its "enters" ability.

2004-12-01

You don't pay the spell's mana cost. If the spell has X in its mana cost, X is 0. You do pay any additional costs for that spell. You can't use any alternative costs.

2004-12-01

If the copied card is a split card, you choose which one side of it to cast, but you can't cast both sides. You can choose the other side later in the game, though.

2005-03-01

The creation of the copy and then the casting of the copy are both optional.

📜 Technical Attributes

Release Date: 2004-02-06

Set Name: Darksteel

Artist Reference: Ron Spencer

Border Profile: black

✨ Variants & Finishes

Available Finishes Standard • Traditional Foil

Promo Status NO

Edition Status Original Printing