Free Spell

Spells with an alternative cost that lets you skip the mana entirely, typically by exiling a card from hand of a matching color. Force of Will exiles a blue card and pays life, Force of Negation exiles a blue card; the Evoke elementals Fury, Solitude, Endurance, and Grief exile a card of their color to enter for free; Commandeer and Snapback exile blue cards rather than pay their mana. This makes them the backbone of tempo-free interaction on an empty board. Narrower view of Cost Alternative, the umbrella for any spell with a mana-replacing alternative cost; this set focuses on the truly-free, no-mana-required ones rather than alternatives that still demand a resource like sacrificing lands. Distinct from Cost Reducer, which only shaves mana off costs instead of removing the cost outright.