Card
Kylox, Visionary Inventor
Mana cost {5}{U}{R}
Legendary Creature — Lizard Artificer 4/4
Menace, ward {2}, haste Whenever Kylox attacks, sacrifice any number of other creatures, then exile the top X cards of your library, where X is their total power. You may cast any number of instant and/or sorcery spells from among the exiled cards without paying their mana costs.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · MKM · #214
- Cheapest printing
- €0.08
- EDHREC salt
- 0.20
- Color identity
- Red, Blue
- Keywords
- Haste, Menace, Ward
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2024-02-02 · Wizards of the Coast
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 additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the spell. - 2024-02-02 · Wizards of the Coast
Use the power of the sacrificed creatures as they last existed on the battlefield to determine the value of X. - 2024-02-02 · Wizards of the Coast
You choose which spells to cast (if any) as Kylox, Visionary Inventor's last ability resolves. If you choose to cast any spells, you do so as part of the resolution of that ability. You can't wait to cast them later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on the cards' types are ignored. - 2024-02-02 · Wizards of the Coast
If the spell you cast has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast