Hidden Cataract
- Type
- Land — Cave
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #273 (common)
- Price
- $0.21 USD
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{4}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Hidden Cataract has 2 printings, first in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (2023). EDHREC ranks it #5,454 among Commander cards. It appears most in Omo, Queen of Vesuva decks (3,481 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 9 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Hidden Cataract
- Tricky Terrain - Modern Horizons 3 Commander, led by Omo, Queen of Vesuva
Commanders that run Hidden Cataract most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Omo, Queen of Vesuva: 3,481 decks
- Kellan, the Kid: 2,037 decks
- Dynaheir, Invoker Adept: 380 decks
- Riku of Many Paths: 334 decks
- Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists: 301 decks
- Averna, the Chaos Bloom: 295 decks
- Nicanzil, Current Conductor: 229 decks
- Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing: 222 decks
Often played with Hidden Cataract
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You exile the cards face up. All players will be able to see them.
- : When you discover, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether you cast the exiled card or put it into your hand.
- : The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If discover allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half (as long as its mana value is less than or equal to the effect's discover value) but not both halves.
- : If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost", you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast it.
- : Some spells and abilities that cause you to discover may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve and you won't discover.
- : If you can't cast the discovered card (perhaps because there are no legal targets for the spell), you'll put it into your hand.
- : If the discovered card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
- : A spell's mana value is determined only by its mana cost. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions.
- : If you discover an adventurer card, split card, or modal double-faced card, you might be able to cast that card with either set of characteristics depending on the effect's discover value. For example, if you discover 4 and reveal Galvanic Giant (an adventurer card from Wilds of Eldraine with a mana value of 4), you could cast Galvanic Giant, but not Storm Reading (its Adventure, which has a mana value of 7). If you discover 7 and reveal Galvanic Giant, you could cast either Galvanic Giant or Storm Reading.