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Sly Requisitioner

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Sly Requisitioner, Aether Revolt printing
Aether Revolt AER · No. 72 2017-01-20

Card text

{4}{B}
Creature — Human Artificer
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Whenever a nontoken artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.
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Keywords: Improvise
EDHREC rank #18582 Uncommon Not on the Reserved List
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Standard ∅ Not legal
Pioneer ✓ Legal
Modern ✓ Legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ✓ Legal
Historic ✓ Legal
Timeless ✓ Legal
Alchemy ∅ Not legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ✓ Legal
Penny ∅ Not legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

9 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

Improvise doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.

2017-02-09 · Wizards of the Coast

Equipment attached to a creature doesn't become tapped when that creature becomes tapped, and tapping that Equipment doesn't cause the creature to become tapped.

2017-02-09 · Wizards of the Coast

Tapping an artifact won't cause its abilities to stop applying unless those abilities say so.

2017-02-09 · Wizards of the Coast

When calculating a spell's total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Improvise applies after the total cost is calculated.

2017-02-09 · Wizards of the Coast

If Sly Requisitioner is put into a graveyard at the same time as a nontoken artifact you control, its ability triggers.

2017-02-09 · Wizards of the Coast

Improvise can't be used to pay for anything other than the cost of casting the spell. For example, it can't be used during the resolution of an ability that says "Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}."

2017-02-09 · Wizards of the Coast

If an artifact you control has a mana ability with {T} in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with improvise will result in the artifact being tapped when you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for improvise. Similarly, if you sacrifice an artifact to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with improvise, that artifact won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for improvise.

2017-02-09 · Wizards of the Coast

Improvise can't pay for {W}, {U}, {B}, {R}, {G}, or {C} mana symbols in a spell's total cost.

2017-02-09 · Wizards of the Coast

Because improvise isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.

2017-02-09 · Wizards of the Coast

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