Advanced card search Random card

Brain in a Jar

Shadows over Innistrad — rare

Artifact

Brain in a Jar rulings:

2016-04-08: When resolving the first ability of Brain in a Jar, the newly-placed charge counter will be counted when determining what spells you may cast. No player may take any action between you placing the counter and choosing which spell to cast.

2016-04-08: If Brain in a Jar leaves the battlefield before its first ability resolves, use the number of counters on it at the moment it left to determine what spell you may cast. That number won’t change because you can’t put a new counter on Brain in a Jar.

2016-04-08: If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t choose to cast it for any alternative costs, such as awaken costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Lightning Axe, you must pay those to cast the card.

2016-04-08: If the card has in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X.

TCGPlayer low price:

$0.18

Buy now! ▶

Loading price data

Rating:

4.76/10

Rate This:

Still confused?
Here are cards with similar text to Brain in a Jar:

View More / Advanced Search Options

Arcane Endeavor

Sorcery

Roll two d8 and choose one result. Draw cards equal to that result. Then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value less than or equal to the other result from your hand without paying its mana cost.

7.5 /10

$0.23

Founding the Third Path

Enchantment — Saga

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I — You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 1 or 2 from your hand without paying its mana cost.
II — Target player mills four cards.
III — Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. Copy it. You may cast the copy.

6.4 /10

$0.13

Oracle of Bones

Creature — Minotaur Shaman (3/1)

Haste
Tribute 2 (As this creature enters the battlefield, an opponent of your choice may put two +1/+1 counters on it.)
When Oracle of Bones enters the battlefield, if tribute wasn't paid, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand without paying its mana cost.

5.2 /10

$0.20

Press the Enemy

Instant

Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost.

7.3 /10

$0.21

Omnispell Adept

Creature — Human Wizard (3/4)

, : You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand without paying its mana cost.

5.2 /10

$0.14

Surtland Elementalist

Creature — Giant Wizard (8/8)

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Giant card from your hand or pay .
Whenever Surtland Elementalist attacks, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand without paying its mana cost.

5.7 /10

$0.11

Wildfire Eternal

Creature — Zombie Jackal Cleric (1/4)

Afflict 4 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 4 life.)
Whenever Wildfire Eternal attacks and isn't blocked, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand without paying its mana cost.

5.7 /10

$0.21

Spectral Arcanist

Creature — Spirit Wizard (3/2)

Flying
When Spectral Arcanist enters the battlefield, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of Spirits you control from a graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

7.3 /10

$0.12

Muse Vortex

Sorcery

Exile the top X cards of your library. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value X or less from among them without paying its mana cost. Then put the exiled instant and sorcery cards that weren't cast this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

6.3 /10

$0.11

Summons of Saruman

Sorcery

Amass Orcs X. Mill X cards. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value X or less from among them without paying its mana cost. (To amass Orcs X, put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)
Flashback—, Exile X cards from your graveyard.

7.7 /10

$0.69

Tetsuo, Imperial Champion

Legendary Creature — Human Samurai (3/3)

Whenever Tetsuo, Imperial Champion attacks, if it's equipped, choose one —
• Tetsuo deals damage equal to the highest mana value among Equipment attached to it to any target.
• You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand with mana value less than or equal to the highest mana value among Equipment attached to Tetsuo without paying its mana cost.

6 /10

$0.35

Aether Vial

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Aether Vial.
: You may put a creature card with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on Aether Vial from your hand onto the battlefield.

8.1 /10

Glamdring

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +1/+0 for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand with mana value less than or equal to that damage without paying its mana cost.
Equip

7.9 /10

$1.03

Sword of Once and Future

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from blue and from black.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 2. Then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Equip

8.4 /10

$5.17

Velomachus Lorehold

Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon (5/5)

Flying, vigilance, haste
Whenever Velomachus Lorehold attacks, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value less than or equal to Velomachus Lorehold's power from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

7.7 /10

$1.49

Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring

Artifact // Land

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a charge counter on Primal Amulet. Then if there are four or more charge counters on it, you may remove those counters and transform it.

Primal Wellspring

(Transforms from Primal Amulet.)
: Add one mana of any color. When that mana is spent to cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.

9.6 /10

$9.34

Kyren Toy

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on Kyren Toy.
, Remove X charge counters from Kyren Toy: Add an amount of equal to X plus one.

2.9 /10

$0.73

Mindclaw Shaman

Creature — Viashino Shaman (2/2)

When Mindclaw Shaman enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals their hand. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

7.4 /10

$0.22

Sorcerous Squall

Sorcery

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)
Target opponent mills nine cards, then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

6.5 /10

$0.46

Talent of the Telepath

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals the top seven cards of their library. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Then that player puts the rest into their graveyard.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, you may cast up to two instant and/or sorcery spells from among the revealed cards instead of one.

7.9 /10

$0.72

View More / Advanced Search Options

Brain in a Jar

Rating:

Rate This:

Still confused?Here are cards with similar text to Brain in a Jar:

Still confused?
Here are cards with similar text to Brain in a Jar: