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Invoke Calamity
Instant
rare
You may cast up to two instant and/or sorcery spells with total mana value 6 or less from your graveyard and/or hand without paying their mana costs. If those spells would be put into your graveyard, exile them instead. Exile Invoke Calamity.
Semantic Tags
A keyword ability that reduces how much mana you need to spend to cast a spell. See rule 702.41, “Affinity.”
A keyword ability that may let a player cast a random extra spell for no cost. See rule 702.85, “Cascade.”
Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.
Rewards casting instants and sorceries. Includes magecraft, prowess triggers, and spell-count payoffs.
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Printings (6)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magic Online Promos#98005 | rare | · | · | · |
| Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty#384 | rare | · | · | · |
| Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos#147p | rare | · | · | · |
| Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos#147s | rare | · | · | · |
| Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty#147 | rare | · | · | · |
| Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty#467 | rare | · | · | · |
Related Rules
Cascade
If a spell has multiple instances of affinity, each of them applies.
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.”
Cascade is a triggered ability that functions only while the spell with cascade is on the stack. “Cascade” means “When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card whose mana value is less than this spell’s mana value. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost if the resulting spell’s mana value is less than this spell’s mana value. Then put all cards exiled this way that weren’t cast on the bottom of your library in a random order.”
If an effect allows a player to take an action with one or more of the exiled cards “as you cascade,” the player may take that action after they have finished exiling cards due to the cascade ability. This action is taken before choosing whether to cast the last exiled card or, if no appropriate card was exiled, before putting the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.
If a spell has multiple instances of cascade, each triggers separately.
Rulings
If you cast a spell without paying its mana cost, you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay any additional costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.
The spells are cast one after the other during the resolution of Invoke Calamity. The one you cast second will be the first one to resolve.
If the spell has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
Invoke Calamity looks for the mana values and types of the spells on the stack, not the mana values and types of the cards in your graveyard. Notably, this means that you may cast the back face of a modal double-faced card or either face of a split card as long as the spells you are casting are either instants or sorceries and together have a total mana value of 6 or less.