Pixie Illusionist — 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.

Pixie Illusionist — ruling 2

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

Pixie Illusionist — ruling 3

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.

Pixie Illusionist — ruling 4

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

Pixie Illusionist — ruling 5

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

Pixie Illusionist — ruling 6

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

Pixie Illusionist — ruling 7

You choose a basic land type as the last ability resolves.

Pixie Illusionist — ruling 8

The affected land loses its existing land types and any abilities printed on it. It becomes the chosen basic land type and now has the ability to tap to add one mana of the appropriate color. Pixie Illusionist's ability doesn't change the affected land's name or whether it's legendary or basic.

Pixie Illusionist : règles, fonctionnement et interactions (MTG)

Pixie Illusionist 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.) Flying If this creature was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. : Target land you control becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.

How it works : Pixie Illusionist

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 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.
#3November 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.
#4November 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.
#5November 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.
#6November 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.
#7September 9, 2022· Wizards of the Coast
You choose a basic land type as the last ability resolves.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#8September 9, 2022· Wizards of the Coast
The affected land loses its existing land types and any abilities printed on it. It becomes the chosen basic land type and now has the ability to tap to add one mana of the appropriate color. Pixie Illusionist's ability doesn't change the affected land's name or whether it's legendary or basic.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#9September 9, 2022· Wizards of the Coast
Pixie Illusionist's third ability isn't a triggered ability. If it was kicked, there is no point where an opponent can respond while it is on the battlefield but doesn't yet have counters on it.
No other card is named in this ruling.