Semblance Anvil

brrThe Brothers' War Retro Artifacts#115rare
{3}
Legal in 14 of 23 formats
Treatments
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Card text & rulings

Oracle text

Artifact

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonland card from your hand.

Spells you cast that share a card type with the exiled card cost {2} less to cast.

Ability breakdown
Abilities
TriggeredImprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonland card from your hand.
StaticSpells you cast that share a card type with the exiled card cost {2} less to cast.
Rulings
  • WotCJan 1, 2011

    Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, kindred, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.

  • WotCJan 1, 2011

    Semblance Anvil can reduce the amount you pay for a spell's cost that includes {X}. For example, Blaze is a sorcery that costs {X}{R}. If the card exiled with Semblance Anvil is a sorcery, and you want to cast Blaze with X equal to 5, you'll have to pay only {3}{R}. This is true even if the ability states that {X} must be paid with a certain color of mana (as Drain Life does).

  • WotCJan 1, 2011

    Semblance Anvil takes the total cost to cast a spell into account, not just its mana cost. This includes additional costs (such as kicker) and alternative costs (such as evoke). It also includes cost increases from other sources (such as Lodestone Golem's ability).

  • WotCJan 1, 2011

    Semblance Anvil won't affect the part of a spell's cost represented by colored mana symbols. For example, a spell that normally costs {1}{U} to cast would cost {U} if it shared a card type with the exiled card.

  • WotCJan 1, 2011

    Semblance Anvil's cost reduction effect is mandatory.

  • WotCJan 1, 2011

    Spells you cast that share multiple card types with the exiled card still cost just {2} less to cast. They don't get a greater cost reduction.

Deck role

Plays as
Cost Reducer

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Format legality

commander
Legal to play
All formats
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlLegal
CommanderLegal
competitivebrawlLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorLegal
HistoricLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyLegal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHLegal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessLegal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
Market & price history
Flavor & art
"The forges consumed all and still screamed for more." —*The Antiquities War*
Illustrated by
Dan Murayama Scott
Reference & links
Card details
Artist
Dan Murayama Scott
Frame
1997
Language
EN
Border
black
Security stamp