Hunting Wilds — ruling 1

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.

Hunting Wilds — ruling 2

If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.

Hunting Wilds — ruling 3

If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.

Hunting Wilds — ruling 4

If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."

Hunting Wilds — ruling 5

The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.

Hunting Wilds — ruling 6

If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.

Hunting Wilds — ruling 7

A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature is subject to the "summoning sickness" rule: It can only attack, and its {T} abilities can only be activated, if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn.

Hunting Wilds — ruling 8

If the Hunting Wilds is kicked, the Forests become creatures with haste permanently.

Hunting Wilds : règles, fonctionnement et interactions (MTG)

Hunting Wilds is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.

Official card text

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.) Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. If this spell was kicked, untap all Forests put onto the battlefield this way. They become 3/3 green creatures with haste that are still lands.

How it works : Hunting Wilds

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

#1November 8, 2024· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#2November 8, 2024· Wizards of the Coast
If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#3November 8, 2024· Wizards of the Coast
If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#4November 8, 2024· Wizards of the Coast
If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
No other card is named in this ruling.
#5November 8, 2024· Wizards of the Coast
The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#6November 8, 2024· Wizards of the Coast
If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#7October 1, 2009· Wizards of the Coast
A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature is subject to the "summoning sickness" rule: It can only attack, and its abilities can only be activated, if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#8February 1, 2007· Wizards of the Coast
If the Hunting Wilds is kicked, the Forests become creatures with haste permanently.
No other card is named in this ruling.