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Mind's Dilation
Enchantment
mythic
Whenever an opponent casts their first spell each turn, that player exiles the top card of their library. If it's a nonland card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.
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A spell that replaces itself by drawing a card as part of its resolution.
A keyword ability that lets you tap creatures rather than pay mana to cast a spell. See rule 702.51, “Convoke.”
A keyword ability that lets you exile cards from your graveyard rather than pay generic mana to cast a spell. See rule 702.66, “Delve.”
A keyword ability that allows a player to cast a double-faced card transformed from the graveyard. See rule 702.146, “Disturb.”
A keyword ability that lets a player play a card any time they could cast an instant. See rule 702.8, “Flash.”
A keyword ability that lets a player cast a card from their graveyard. See rule 702.34, “Flashback.”
A keyword ability that lets a player exile cards from their hand and cast them for an alternative cost on future turns. See rule 702.143, “Foretell.”
Exile-based card advantage — exile cards from the top of your library and cast them temporarily. Red's primary draw mechanic.
A keyword ability that lets a player cast a card they discard. See rule 702.35, “Madness.”
A card or token on the battlefield. See rule 110, “Permanents.”
Answers an opponent's threat by destroying, exiling, bouncing, or otherwise removing a permanent or spell.
A keyword ability that provides an alternative way to play a card. See rule 702.62, “Suspend.” A card is “suspended” if it’s in the exile zone, has suspend, and has a time counter on it.
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Printings (7)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marvel Super Heroes Commander#277 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Marvel Super Heroes Commander#344 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander#101 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Shadows over Innistrad Remastered#82 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Secret Lair Drop#1180 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Eldritch Moon Promos#70s | mythic | · | · | · |
| Eldritch Moon#70 | mythic | · | · | · |
Related Rules
If an ability would produce one or more mana of an undefined type, it produces no mana instead.
Some abilities produce mana based on the type of mana another permanent or permanents “could produce.” The type of mana a permanent could produce at any time includes any type of mana that an ability of that permanent would produce if the ability were to resolve at that time, taking into account any applicable replacement effects in any possible order. Ignore whether any costs of the ability could or could not be paid. If that permanent wouldn’t produce any mana under these conditions, or no type of mana can be defined this way, there’s no type of mana it could produce.
To “tap [a permanent] for mana” is to activate a mana ability of that permanent that includes the {T} symbol in its activation cost. See rule 605, “Mana Abilities.”
An ability that triggers whenever a permanent “is tapped for mana” or is tapped for mana of a specified type triggers whenever such a mana ability resolves and produces mana or the specified type of mana.
A replacement effect that applies if a permanent “is tapped for mana” or tapped for mana of a specific type and/or amount modifies the mana production event while such an ability is resolving and producing mana or the specified type and/or amount of mana.
If a cost associated with a special action, such as a suspend cost or a morph cost, has an {X} or an X in it, the value of X is chosen by the player taking the special action immediately before they pay that cost.
If an object’s enters-the-battlefield triggered ability or replacement effect refers to X, and the spell that became that object as it resolved had a value of X chosen for any of its costs, the value of X for that ability is the same as the value of X for that spell, although the value of X for that permanent is 0. This is an exception to rule 107.3i.
The tap symbol is {T}. The tap symbol in an activation cost means “Tap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already tapped can’t be tapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the tap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
Rulings
If you don't cast the card, perhaps because you choose not to or because it's a land card, it remains exiled.
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.
If you cast the exiled card, you do so as part of the resolution of Mind's Dilation's ability. You can't wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing permissions based on the card's type are ignored, but other restrictions (such as "Cast [this card] only during combat") are not.
If you cast an instant or sorcery card this way, it goes to its owner's graveyard as normal. It doesn't return to exile.
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, such as escalate costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.
If you cast the card this way, it will resolve before the spell that caused Mind's Dilation's ability to trigger.