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Ingenious Mastery
Sorcery
rare
You may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost. If the cost was paid, you draw three cards, then an opponent creates two Treasure tokens and they scry 2. If that cost wasn't paid, you draw X cards.
Semantic Tags
Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.
Creates creature tokens, Treasure tokens, Food tokens, Clue tokens, or other token types.
Cares about or manipulates the top card(s) of your library. Includes scry, surveil, and top-deck payoffs.
Cares about or manipulates the top of library — Sensei's Top, miracles, Future Sight.
Creates Treasure tokens for mana or sacrifice synergies.
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Printings (5)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magic Online Promos#90024 | rare | · | · | · |
| Strixhaven: School of Mages#44 | rare | · | · | · |
| Strixhaven: School of Mages Promos#44p | rare | · | · | · |
| Strixhaven: School of Mages Promos#44s | rare | · | · | · |
| Strixhaven: School of Mages#297 | rare | · | · | · |
Related Concepts
Related Rules
A Shard token is a colorless Shard enchantment token with “{2}, Sacrifice this token: Scry 1, then draw a card.”
A Sorcerer Role token is a colorless Aura Role enchantment token named Sorcerer with enchant creature and “Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has ‘Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1.’”
Scry
To “scry N” means to look at the top N cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library in any order and the rest on top of your library in any order.
If a player is instructed to scry 0, no scry event occurs. Abilities that trigger whenever a player scries won’t trigger.
If multiple players scry at once, each of those players looks at the top cards of their library at the same time. Those players decide in APNAP order (see rule 101.4) where to put those cards, then those cards move at the same time.
Rulings
In a multiplayer game, you choose which opponent takes the prescribed action as the spell resolves.
If you copy a “Mastery” spell and the alternative cost was paid, the copy will resolve as though the cost was paid.
The mana value of a spell on the stack is determined by its mana cost, not any alternative costs you used to pay for it.
If an effect increases or decreases the cost of spells you cast, that cost increase or decrease is applied to the alternative cost you chose to pay. In that case, the cost was still paid for the purposes of the effect, even if you paid more or less for it when it was cast.
If you choose to pay one alternative cost, you can’t pay any other alternative costs. For example, if an effect lets you cast a “Mastery” spell “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t also choose to pay its given alternative cost.