Spellbinder
- Mana cost
- {3}
- Type
- Artifact — Equipment
- Set
- Darksteel #143 (rare)
- Price
- $6.13 USD
Imprint — When this Equipment enters, you may exile an instant card from your hand.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
Equip {4}
Spellbinder has 1 printing, first in Darksteel (2004). EDHREC ranks it #15,484 among Commander cards. It appears most in The Dawning Archaic decks (47 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Spellbinder most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- The Dawning Archaic: 47 decks
- Queen Brahne: 14 decks
- Zhuge Jin, Wu Strategist: 2 decks
- Titania, Rugged Rumbler: 2 decks
- Helmut Zemo, Mastermind: 1 decks
- She-Hulk, Attorney-at-Law: 1 decks
- Blue Marvel, Adam Brashear: 1 decks
- Agent Maria Hill: 1 decks
Often played with Spellbinder
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
- Balancing Act
- Mayor of Avabruck
- Full Moon's Rise
- Weaver of Blossoms
- Scorned Villager
- Sage of Ancient Lore
- Hound Tamer
- Hermit of the Natterknolls
- Cult of the Waxing Moon
- Tovolar's Huntmaster
Rulings
- : Spellbinder's second ability allows you to create a copy of the imprinted instant card in the Exile zone (that's where the imprinted instant card is) and then cast it without paying its mana cost.
- : Spellbinder imprints a card only once, when it enters. Attaching Spellbinder to a creature doesn't trigger its "enters" ability.
- : You don't pay the spell's mana cost. If the spell has X in its mana cost, X is 0. You do pay any additional costs for that spell. You can't use any alternative costs.
- : If the copied card is a split card, you choose which one side of it to cast, but you can't cast both sides. You can choose the other side later in the game, though.
- : The creation of the copy and then the casting of the copy are both optional.