Name
Spellbinder

Mana Cost

Type
Artifact — Equipment

Set
Darksteel

Rarity
Rare

Text

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.
Equip


Number
#143

Legal Formats
Commander | Duel | Legacy | Modern | Oathbreaker | Penny | Vintage

Availability
Magic Online | Paper

Rulings

(01/12/2004)
Spellbinder imprints a card only once, when it enters. Attaching Spellbinder to a creature doesn't trigger its "enters" ability.


(01/12/2004)
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.


(01/12/2004)
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.


(01/03/2005)
The creation of the copy and then the casting of the copy are both optional.


(01/12/2004)
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.


Artist
Ron Spencer

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