Waterbend
MTG Mechanic
To pay a waterbend cost, you can always just pay the requested mana. However, for each {1} in that cost, you can tap an untapped artifact or creature you control rather than pay that mana. If you choose to tap a creature to help pay a waterbend cost, it can be one that just came under your control that turn.
Waterbend Rules
A keyword action. “Waterbend [cost]” means to pay that cost and, for each {1} in that cost, you may tap an untapped artifact or creature you control rather than pay mana. See rule 701.67, “Waterbend.”
- 701.67a: “Waterbend [cost]” means “Pay [cost]. For each generic mana in that cost, you may tap an untapped artifact or creature you control rather than pay that mana.”
- 701.67b: If a waterbend cost is part of the total cost to cast a spell or activate an ability (usually because the waterbend cost itself is an additional cost), the alternate method to pay for mana described in rule 701.67a may be used only to pay for the amount of generic mana in the waterbend cost, even if the total cost to cast that spell or activate that ability includes other generic mana components.
- 701.67c: An ability that triggers whenever a player waterbends triggers whenever that player pays a waterbend cost, regardless of how they paid that cost.
MTGA Sets with Waterbend
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