Bastion Inventor
Creature — Vedalken Artificer
Bastion Inventor
Creature — Vedalken Artificer
Card Text
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for .)
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Card Details
- Mana Value
- 6
- Colors
- Blue
- Color Identity
- Blue
- Power / Toughness
- 4 / 4
- EDHREC Rank
- #27,546
Format Legalities
Market Prices
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Price History (30d)
All Printings (12)
| Set | # | Rarity | Lang | Artist | Price | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) | #AER-30 | common | en | Tony Foti | $0.21 | — |
| Aether Revolt (AER) | #30 | common | en | Tony Foti | $0.12 | $0.18 |
| Aether Revolt (AER) | #30 | common | de | Tony Foti | — | — |
| Aether Revolt (AER) | #30 | common | es | Tony Foti | — | — |
| Aether Revolt (AER) | #30 | common | fr | Tony Foti | — | — |
| Aether Revolt (AER) | #30 | common | it | Tony Foti | — | — |
| Aether Revolt (AER) | #30 | common | ja | Tony Foti | — | — |
| Aether Revolt (AER) | #30 | common | ko | Tony Foti | — | — |
| Aether Revolt (AER) | #30 | common | pt | Tony Foti | — | — |
| Aether Revolt (AER) | #30 | common | ru | Tony Foti | — | — |
| Aether Revolt (AER) | #30 | common | zhs | Tony Foti | — | — |
| Aether Revolt (AER) | #30 | common | zht | Tony Foti | — | — |
Official Rulings (8)
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.
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.
Improvise doesn’t change a spell’s mana cost or mana value.
Improvise can’t pay for {W}, {U}, {B}, {R}, {G}, or {C} mana symbols in a spell’s total cost.
Because improvise isn’t an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.
Tapping an artifact won’t cause its abilities to stop applying unless those abilities say so.
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}.”
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.
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