Mysterious Stranger 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
Flash When this creature enters, for each graveyard with an instant or sorcery card in it, exile target instant or sorcery card from that graveyard. If two or more cards are exiled this way, choose one of them at random and copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
How it works : Mysterious Stranger
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
You cast the copy while Mysterious Stranger’s last ability is resolving and still on the stack. You can’t wait to cast it later in the turn.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If a spell has
in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· 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. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the card.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If you don’t want to cast the copy, you can choose not to; the copy ceases to exist the next time state-based actions are checked.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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