2 Oct 2025
To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
2 Oct 2025
If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
2 Oct 2025
Clue tokens are artifact tokens with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card."
2 Oct 2025
Creating a Clue token this way isn't the same thing as investigating. Notably, an ability that triggers whenever you investigate won't trigger because of creating a Clue token this way.
2 Oct 2025
The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
2 Oct 2025
If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked.