Founding the Third Path

Mana cost: {1}{U}
Type: Enchantment — Saga
Set: Dominaria United #50 (uncommon)
Price: $0.23 USD

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I — You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 1 or 2 from your hand without paying its mana cost.
II — Target player mills four cards.
III — Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. Copy it. You may cast the copy.

Founding the Third Path has 1 printing, first in Dominaria United (2022). EDHREC ranks it #14,318 among Commander cards. It appears most in Octavia, Living Thesis decks (309 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.

Legality

commander: legal
legacy: legal
vintage: legal
pauper: not legal
modern: legal
pioneer: legal
standard: not legal
brawl: legal

Commanders that run Founding the Third Path most

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Rulings

2022-09-09: As a Saga with read ahead enters the battlefield, its controller chooses a number from one to that Saga’s greatest chapter number. The Saga enters the battlefield with the chosen number of lore counters. Neither choosing the number nor putting the counters on the Saga use the stack, and neither can be responded to.
2022-09-09: If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
2022-09-09: You must pay all costs for the copy of a spell you cast as Founding the Third Path’s last chapter ability resolves. If you choose to cast it, you must cast as the ability resolves. You can’t wait and cast it at a later time.
2022-09-09: If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the card.

Printings

Dominaria United #50