MScore: 0.4/10
Aether Searcher
Artifact Creature — Constructrare
Reveal this card as you draft it. Reveal the next card you draft and note its name.
When this creature enters, you may search your hand and/or library for a card with a name noted as you drafted cards named Aether Searcher. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you searched your library this way, shuffle.
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Illustrated by James Paick · Conspiracy · #53
Rulings for Aether Searcher
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2014-05-29
When casting a card this way, ignore timing restrictions based on the card's type. Other timing restrictions, such as "Cast [this spell] only during combat," must be followed.
2014-05-29
If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't pay alternative costs such as overload costs. You can pay additional costs such as kicker costs. If the card has mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.
2014-05-29
If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as its value.
2014-05-29
If Aether Searcher leaves the battlefield before its ability resolves, you'll still be able to search for the named card and cast it.
2014-05-29
If the card you draft after Aether Searcher is a land card, you won't be able to play that land using Aether Searcher's ability.
2014-05-29
If Aether Searcher is the last card you draft in any draft round other than the last one, you'll reveal the first card you draft in the following draft round and note its name.
2014-05-29
If Aether Searcher is the last card you draft, there won't be a noted name. You can still search your hand and/or library when it enters the battlefield, but you won't cast any card this way unless you also drafted an Aether Searcher and noted a card then.
2014-05-29
If an Aether Searcher owned by another player enters the battlefield under your control, you can search for a card you've named while drafting a card named Aether Searcher, not a card named by its owner. Unless you also drafted a card named Aether Searcher, you won't cast a card.
2014-05-29
You cast the card before shuffling your library (if it was searched). In some very rare cases, you may need to take actions involving your library while casting the card. For example, if it has an additional cost and you activate Deranged Assistant's ability ("{T}, Put the top card of your library into your graveyard: Add {C}.") to pay for it, you must maintain the order of your library while you search it.
less to cast.
: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. You may erase any number of words on the card, including flavor text, as long as the card still makes sense. Then cast the revised card without paying its mana cost. Put all other cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.