“Ghirapur's most celebrated inventors have been immortalized in clockwork.”
Inspiring Statuary
Card Rules and Details
Card Type: Artifact
Mana Cost: {3}
Oracle Rules Text: Nonartifact spells you cast have improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast those spells. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Flavor Text: Ghirapur's most celebrated inventors have been immortalized in clockwork.
Set: Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (#230), Rarity: Rare, Artist: Kirsten Zirngibl
Artifact
Colorless
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Historical Printings & Sets (1)
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Official Rulings (2)
2017-02-09
If you cast a nonartifact spell that requires you to sacrifice a permanent as an additional cost, you may tap that permanent (if it's an artifact) for the spell's improvise ability before you sacrifice it to pay that cost.
2017-02-09
Multiple instances of improvise are redundant.
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