Nix magic the gathering card art
Future Sight (fut)
#55rare English Foil

Nix
island

Instant

Counter target spell if no mana was spent to cast it.

Illustrated by Brian Despain
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Legalities
Not Legal
standard
Not Legal
historic
Not Legal
pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Not Legal
pauper
Legal
vintage
Legal
Commander
Not Legal
brawl
Not Legal
alchemy
Rulings
Nix can target any spell. The condition is checked only on resolution.
2007-05-01wotc
Nix doesn’t check whether a spell’s mana cost is 0. Rather, it checks how much mana was actually spent to cast it. It can counter a spell with mana cost 0 (such as Slaughter Pact), a spell cast via an alternative nonmana cost (such as Allosaurus Rider) or alternative cost of {0} (such as Basking Rootwalla), a spell whose cost to cast it was reduced to 0 (such as Frogmite), a spell cast without paying its cost due to an effect (such as suspend or Mindleech Mass’s ability), or a copy of a spell, among other possibilities. It will not counter a spell that had an additional or alternative mana cost paid to cast it, regardless of that spell’s mana value (such as a face-down spell cast with morph, or an Ornithopter cast while Trinisphere is on the battlefield, for example).
2007-05-01wotc
Nix checks whether any player paid mana to cast the spell, not whether its current controller did. If Commandeer is cast on a spell, then Nix is cast on that spell, Nix won’t counter it unless the player who originally cast that spell spent no mana to cast it.
2007-05-01wotc


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