Magic the Gathering Question: Splice

[Beelzebub1111]

Hundred-Talon Strike (http://magiccards.info/bok/en/8.html), can you splice it multiple times with the same spell?

[Squark]

I don't think so. Check the gatherer text.


We do have an MTG thread (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=190392), though, and that's the best place for you to get answers.

[Lord Loss]

702.44. Splice

702.44a Splice is a static ability that functions while a card is in your hand. "Splice onto [subtype] [cost]" means "You may reveal this card from your hand as you cast a [subtype] spell. If you do, copy this card's text box onto that spell and pay [cost] as an additional cost to cast that spell." Paying a card's splice cost follows the rules for paying additional costs in rules 601.2b and 601.2e-g.

Example: Since the card with splice remains in the player's hand, it can later be cast normally or spliced onto another spell. It can even be discarded to pay a "discard a card" cost of the spell it's spliced onto.


702.44b You can't choose to use a splice ability if you can't make the required choices (targets, etc.) for that card's instructions. You can't splice any one card onto the same spell more than once. If you're splicing more than one card onto a spell, reveal them all at once and choose the order in which their instructions will be followed. The instructions on the main spell have to be followed first.


702.44c The spell has the characteristics of the main spell, plus the text boxes of each of the spliced cards. The spell doesn't gain any other characteristics (name, mana cost, color, supertypes, card types, subtypes, etc.) of the spliced cards. Text copied onto the spell that refers to a card by name refers to the spell on the stack, not the card from which the text was copied.

Example: Glacial Ray is a red card with splice onto Arcane that reads, "Glacial Ray deals 2 damage to target creature or player." Suppose Glacial Ray is spliced onto Reach Through Mists, a blue spell. The spell is still blue, and Reach Through Mists deals the damage. This means that the ability can target a creature with protection from red and deal 2 damage to that creature.

702.44d Choose targets for the added text normally (see rule 601.2c). Note that a spell with one or more targets will be countered if all of its targets are illegal on resolution.

702.44e The spell loses any splice changes once it leaves the stack (for example, when it's countered, it's exiled, or it resolves

The official rules on the Splice ability. it's a cost, as such you can only pay it once (like a mana cost, you can't pay it multiple times even if you want to).

[factotum]

it's a cost, as such you can only pay it once (like a mana cost, you can't pay it multiple times even if you want to).

Er, what? :smallconfused: You can pay a mana cost as often as you have the mana to cover it! This is why so many abilities on Magic cards require you to tap the card to pay for them--that forces you to use them only once per turn because you can't normally untap a card until your next turn.

What restricts you from splicing the same spell multiple times is outlined right there in rule 702.44b: "You can't splice any one card onto the same spell more than once". That text wouldn't be required if paying a cost more than once was disallowed anyway, would it?

[Lord Loss]

Oh. Right. Forgot about that one...