Cunning Nightbonder

Format legality

Where you can play Cunning Nightbonder in sanctioned and popular formats.

All printings

Prices range from $0.31 to $3.37 across finishes. Cheapest printing: Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths at $0.31.

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Rulings

Official rulings from Wizards of the Coast (7).

• 2020-04-17Spells with flash that you control but didn't cast (perhaps because they're copies of a spell or because you took control of them from another player) can be countered.
• 2020-04-17Players can't attempt to remove Cunning Nightbonder to raise the cost of a spell you wish to cast, but they can remove it to allow their spells and abilities to counter your spells.
• 2020-04-17Cunning Nightbonder's last ability doesn't apply to itself while it's a spell.
• 2020-04-17To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Cunning Nightbonder). The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
• 2020-04-17Cunning Nightbonder's cost reduction applies only to generic mana in a spell's cost. It can't reduce a spell's colored mana requirements. For example, your first Cunning Nightbonder won't normally reduce the cost of your second since it has no generic mana in its cost.
• 2020-04-17A spell or ability that counters spells can still target spells with flash you cast. When that spell or ability resolves, your spell won't be countered, but any additional effects of the countering spell or ability will still happen.
• 2020-04-17If Cunning Nightbonder enters the battlefield while a spell with flash that you cast is on the stack, that spell can't be countered, even though you don't get the {1} discount.

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