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Metallic Rebuke
Instant
common
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for .) Counter target spell unless its controller pays .
Semantic Tags
Rewards controlling, casting, or sacrificing artifacts.
Prevents a spell or ability from resolving.
Answers an opponent's threat by destroying, exiling, bouncing, or otherwise removing a permanent or spell.
Slows opponents down by taxing actions or restricting what they can do.
Cares about or manipulates the top of library — Sensei's Top, miracles, Future Sight.
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Printings (4)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaladesh Remastered#56 | common | · | · | · |
| Double Masters#59 | common | · | · | · |
| The List#AER-39 | common | · | · | · |
| Aether Revolt#39 | common | · | · | · |
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Related Rules
Improvise
Improvise is a static ability that functions while the spell with improvise is on the stack. “Improvise” means “For each generic mana in this spell’s total cost, you may tap an untapped artifact you control rather than pay that mana.”
The improvise ability isn’t an additional or alternative cost and applies only after the total cost of the spell with improvise is determined.
Multiple instances of improvise on the same spell are redundant.
Rulings
Tapping an artifact won't cause its abilities to stop applying unless those abilities say so.
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.
Improvise doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.
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.
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.
Improvise can't pay for {U} in Metallic Rebuke's total cost.