Thornscape Battlemage

Rulings (10)

• 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.

  Wizards of the Coast · 2024-11-08

• If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."

  Wizards of the Coast · 2024-11-08

• 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.

  Wizards of the Coast · 2024-11-08

• If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.

  Wizards of the Coast · 2024-11-08

• The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.

  Wizards of the Coast · 2024-11-08

• If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.

  Wizards of the Coast · 2024-11-08

• Kicker costs don't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.

  Wizards of the Coast · 2017-03-14

• You can pay any particular kicker cost only once. You can't pay it multiple times to get multiples of either triggered ability.

  Wizards of the Coast · 2017-03-14

• You choose whether to kick a spell as you cast it, and you pay that much along with the spell's mana cost at the same time. Kicking a spell is always optional.

  Wizards of the Coast · 2017-03-14

• If Thornscape Battlemage is put onto the battlefield as the result of a spell or ability, there's no opportunity to kick it.

  Wizards of the Coast · 2017-03-14