Oracle text
First strike
Black spells and green spells you cast cost less to cast.
Thunderscape masters release familiars to help guide their apprentices down the thunderscape path.
Illustrated by Daren Bader
Released on February 5, 2001
Tags
Legality
- Commander
- Standard
- Modern
- Legacy
- 1v1 Commander
- Alchemy
- Standard Brawl
- Pioneer
- Pauper
- Historic
- Vintage
- Timeless
- Brawl
- Competitive Brawl
- Future
- Gladiator
- Oathbreaker
- Old School
- Pauper Commander
- Penny Dreadful
- PreDH
- Premodern
- Tiny Leaders: Reborn
LegalNot legalBanned / restrictedUnknown
Rulings
If a spell is both black and green, you pay {1} less, not {2} less.
The generic X cost is still considered generic even if there is a requirement that a specific color be used for it. For example, “only black mana can be spent this way”. This distinction is important for effects which reduce the generic portion of a spell’s cost.
The lower cost is not optional like with some other cost reducers.
If this card is sacrificed to pay part of a spell’s cost, the cost reduction still applies.
This can lower the cost to zero, but not below zero.
Can never affect the colored part of the cost.
The effect is cumulative.
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17combos
Chthonian Nightmare + Greedy Freebooter + Shambling Ghast + Thunderscape Familiar
Chthonian Nightmare + Patron of the Arts + Thunderscape Familiar
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+1Rakdos, the Muscle + Priest of Gix + Haunted Crossroads + Viscera Seer + Thunderscape Familiar
+1Rakdos, the Muscle + Priest of Gix + Haunted Crossroads + Umbral Collar Zealot + Thunderscape Familiar
+1Rakdos, the Muscle + Priest of Gix + Haunted Crossroads + Goblin Bombardment + Thunderscape Familiar
Oathsworn Vampire + Phyrexian Altar + Thunderscape Familiar
+1Rakdos, the Muscle + Priest of Gix + Haunted Crossroads + Woe Strider + Thunderscape Familiar