Thicket Elemental 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
How it works : Thicket Elemental
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· 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.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· 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.
- #4· 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.
- #5· 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.
- #6· 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.
- #7· Wizards of the Coast
The "if you do" means "if you choose to reveal cards". You still shuffle if you have no creature card in your library.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Avenger of Zendikar + Craterhoof Behemoth + Maelstrom Wanderer + Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
- 1Cast Maelstrom Wanderer by paying
, plus commander tax if applicable. - 2This triggers both of Maelstrom Wanderer's cascade abilities and both of Momir Vig's abilities.
- 3Resolve Momir Vig's first ability, search your library for Avenger of Zendikar and putting it on top of your library.
- 4Resolve one of Maelstrom Wanderer's cascade abilities, exiling Avenger of Zendikar from your library and casting it without paying its mana cost.
- 5Momir Vig's first ability triggers again, causing you to search your library for Thicket Elemental and put it on top of your library.
- 6Avenger of Zendikar enters the battlefield, triggering itself, creating a 0/1 Plant creature token for each land you control.
- 7Resolve the remaining cascade trigger, exiling Thicket Elemental from your library and casting it without paying its mana cost, choosing to pay an additional
for its kicker cost. - 8Momir Vig's first ability triggers again, causing you to search your library for Craterhoof Behemoth and put it on top of your library.
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