Echo

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Echo charges you a second time for a permanent the turn after it enters. It reads "Echo [cost]."

How it works

• At the beginning of your upkeep, if a permanent with echo came under your control since your last upkeep, you must pay its echo cost.
• If you do not pay, sacrifice the permanent.

Rules notes

• Echo is paid only once, on the first upkeep after the permanent arrives.
• The echo cost is usually equal to the permanent's mana cost, so an echo card is effectively paid for twice if you keep it.
• Echo triggers whenever the permanent newly comes under your control, including via blink or theft effects.

Rule reference

[702.30]