Inspiring Statuary (PAER #160s)

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Inspiring Statuary — Aether Revolt Promos

Inspiring Statuary is a rare printing from Aether Revolt Promos (PAER #160s), a Artifact. Illustrated by Kirsten Zirngibl.

Card text

Nonartifact spells you cast have improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast those spells. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Ghirapur's most celebrated inventors have been immortalized in clockwork.

Details

Mana cost {3}
Type Artifact
Rarity Rare
Set Aether Revolt Promos (PAER)
Collector number 160s
Artist Kirsten Zirngibl
Released 2017-01-20

Current price

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Legality

Standard Not legal
Future Standard Not legal
Historic Legal
Timeless Legal
Gladiator Legal
Pioneer Legal
Modern Legal
Legacy Legal
Pauper Not legal
Vintage Legal
Penny Dreadful Legal
Commander Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Standard Brawl Not legal
Brawl Legal
Competitive Brawl Legal
Alchemy Not legal
Pauper Commander Not legal
Duel Commander Legal
Old School Not legal
Premodern Not legal
PrEDH Not legal
TLR Legal

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Rulings

  • February 9, 2017 — Improvise can't pay for {W}, {U}, {B}, {R}, {G}, or {C} mana symbols in a spell's total cost.
  • February 9, 2017 — Improvise can't be used to pay for anything other than the cost of casting the spell. For example, it can't be used during the resolution of an ability that says "Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}."
  • February 9, 2017 — When calculating a spell's total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Improvise applies after the total cost is calculated.
  • February 9, 2017 — If you cast a nonartifact spell that requires you to sacrifice a permanent as an additional cost, you may tap that permanent (if it's an artifact) for the spell's improvise ability before you sacrifice it to pay that cost.
  • February 9, 2017 — When using improvise to cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost, first choose the value for X. That choice, plus any cost increases or decreases, will determine the spell's total cost. Then you can tap artifacts you control to help pay that cost. For example, if you cast Whir of Invention (a spell with improvise and mana cost {X}{U}{U}{U}) and choose X to be 3, the total cost is {3}{U}{U}{U}. If you tap two artifacts, you'll have to pay {1}{U}{U}{U}.
  • February 9, 2017 — Improvise doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.
  • February 9, 2017 — Multiple instances of improvise are redundant.
  • February 9, 2017 — Equipment attached to a creature doesn't become tapped when that creature becomes tapped, and tapping that Equipment doesn't cause the creature to become tapped.
  • February 9, 2017 — Because improvise isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.
  • February 9, 2017 — Tapping an artifact won't cause its abilities to stop applying unless those abilities say so.
  • February 9, 2017 — If an artifact you control has a mana ability with {T} in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with improvise will result in the artifact being tapped when you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for improvise. Similarly, if you sacrifice an artifact to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with improvise, that artifact won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for improvise.

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