Chemister's Trick

Chemister's Trick Rulings

• Jan 12, 2024

  Because a spell with overload doesn't target when its overload cost is paid, it may affect permanents with hexproof or with protection from the appropriate color.

• Jan 12, 2024

  If you are instructed to cast a spell with overload "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to pay its overload cost instead.

• Jan 12, 2024

  If you don't pay the overload cost of a spell with overload, that spell will have a single target. If you pay the overload cost, the spell won't have any targets.

• Jan 12, 2024

  To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an overload cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

• Oct 1, 2012

  If you cast Chemister's Trick with overload, only creatures you don't control that are on the battlefield when Chemister's Trick resolves are affected. Creatures that come under another player's control later in the turn are not.