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Rishkar's Expertise
Sorcery
rare
Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
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A keyword ability that reduces how much mana you need to spend to cast a spell. See rule 702.41, “Affinity.”
Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.
Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.
A keyword ability that lets you tap creatures rather than pay mana to cast a spell. See rule 702.51, “Convoke.”
Punishes or prevents opponents from drawing extra cards.
A keyword ability that lets a player cast a card they discard. See rule 702.35, “Madness.”
Cares about power of creatures — Fling effects, power-based draw, Xenagos strategies.
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Printings (10)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wizards Play Network 2025#1 | rare | · | · | · |
| Modern Horizons 3 Commander#411 | rare | · | · | · |
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander#254 | rare | · | · | · |
| Wilds of Eldraine Commander#130 | rare | · | · | · |
| New Capenna Commander#306 | rare | · | · | · |
| Neon Dynasty Commander#127 | rare | · | · | · |
| Forgotten Realms Commander#170 | rare | · | · | · |
| Kaladesh Remastered#180 | rare | · | · | · |
| Aether Revolt Promos#123s | rare | · | · | · |
| Aether Revolt#123 | rare | · | · | · |
Related Rules
After resolving a madness triggered ability (see rule 702.35), if the exiled card wasn’t cast and was moved to a public zone, effects referencing the discarded card can find that object.
If a spell has multiple instances of affinity, each of them applies.
Madness
Madness is a keyword that represents two abilities. The first is a static ability that functions while the card with madness is in a player’s hand. The second is a triggered ability that functions when the first ability is applied. “Madness [cost]” means “If a player would discard this card, that player discards it, but exiles it instead of putting it into their graveyard” and “When this card is exiled this way, its owner may cast it by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost. If that player doesn’t, they put this card into their graveyard.”
Casting a spell using its madness ability follows the rules for paying alternative costs in rules 601.2b and 601.2f–h.
After resolving a madness triggered ability, if the exiled card wasn’t cast and was moved to a public zone, effects referencing the discarded card can find that card. See rule 400.7k.
Affinity
Affinity is a static ability that functions while the spell with affinity is on the stack. “Affinity for [text]” means “This spell costs {1} less to cast for each [text] you control.”
Rulings
If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs, such as emerge costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Cathartic Reunion, you must pay those to cast the card.
Effects that allow you to "cast" a card don't allow you to play a land card.
You may cast one of the cards drawn by Rishkar's Expertise's first effect while performing its second effect.
A card's mana value is determined solely by the mana symbols printed in its upper right corner. The mana value is the total amount of mana in that cost, regardless of color. For example, a card with mana cost {1}{U}{U} has mana value 3. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions that could apply to it. A card with no mana cost has a mana value of 0.
If you control no creatures with power greater than 0 as Rishkar's Expertise resolves, you draw no cards, but you may cast a card with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
Any triggered abilities that trigger while performing the Expertise spell's first effect won't be put onto the stack until after you're done casting your free spell. They're put onto the stack at the same time as any abilities that triggered while casting that spell regardless of the order in which those abilities triggered.
While you're casting your free spell, the Expertise spell is still on the stack. It will be put into its owner's graveyard after the free spell is cast. The free spell can't target the Expertise card in your graveyard. It can target the Expertise spell on the stack, but the Expertise spell will become an illegal target before the free spell resolves.
The greatest power among creatures you control is determined as Rishkar's Expertise resolves.
The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If an expertise spell allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half or, if that split card has fuse, both halves.