Improvisation Capstone
- Mana cost
- {5}{R}{R}
- Type
- Sorcery — Lesson
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven #120 (mythic)
- Price
- $10.58 USD
Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile cards with total mana value 4 or greater. You may cast any number of spells from among them without paying their mana costs.
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Improvisation Capstone has 3 printings, first in Secrets of Strixhaven (2026). EDHREC ranks it #2,300 among Commander cards. It appears most in Lorehold, the Historian decks (6,226 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Improvisation Capstone most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Lorehold, the Historian: 6,226 decks
- Rootha, Mastering the Moment: 3,094 decks
- Iroh, Grand Lotus: 2,708 decks
- Gandalf, Party Guest: 2,433 decks
- Prismari, the Inspiration: 2,183 decks
- Fire Lord Zuko: 2,004 decks
- Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound: 1,909 decks
- Prosper, Tome-Bound: 1,900 decks
Often played with Improvisation Capstone
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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 card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the spell.
- : You cast the spells while Improvisation Capstone is resolving and still on the stack. You can't wait to cast them later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on the cards' types are ignored.
- : Once a spell with paradigm has resolved, it doesn't matter what happens to the card in exile. Even if the card leaves exile, the delayed triggered ability will still trigger during each of your first main phases, and the copy will still be created.
- : Paradigm creates a delayed triggered ability that triggers at the beginning of each of your first main phases for the rest of the game. When that ability resolves and the copy is created, you can choose not to cast the copy. In that case, the copy will cease to exist the next time state-based actions are checked. The delayed triggered ability will still trigger again at the beginning of your first main phase on your next turn regardless.
- : If an exiled card has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value and you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
- : Each spell with paradigm has the Lesson subtype. The Lesson subtype appears on instants and sorceries and has no inherent rules meaning. Other effects (such as the learn ability from the original Strixhaven release) may refer to it.