Sunscape Familiar
Creature — Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Green spells and blue spells you cast cost less to cast.
The spirits of fallen battlemages can serve their guilds as familiars by joining with any physical form.
Brian Despain
The List (PLST)
• #PLS-17Rulings
Can never affect the colored part of the cost.
(wotc • 2004-10-04)
If a spell is both green and blue, you pay {1} less, not {2} less.
(wotc • 2004-10-04)
The generic X cost is still considered generic even if there is a requirement that a specific color be used for it. For example, “only black mana can be spent this way”. This distinction is important for effects which reduce the generic portion of a spell’s cost.
(wotc • 2004-10-04)
The lower cost is not optional like with some other cost reducers.
(wotc • 2004-10-04)
The effect is cumulative.
(wotc • 2004-10-04)
If this card is sacrificed to pay part of a spell’s cost, the cost reduction still applies.
(wotc • 2004-10-04)
This can lower the cost to zero, but not below zero.
(wotc • 2004-10-04)
Rulings
Can never affect the colored part of the cost.
(wotc • 2004-10-04)
If a spell is both green and blue, you pay {1} less, not {2} less.
(wotc • 2004-10-04)
The generic X cost is still considered generic even if there is a requirement that a specific color be used for it. For example, “only black mana can be spent this way”. This distinction is important for effects which reduce the generic portion of a spell’s cost.
(wotc • 2004-10-04)
The lower cost is not optional like with some other cost reducers.
(wotc • 2004-10-04)
The effect is cumulative.
(wotc • 2004-10-04)
If this card is sacrificed to pay part of a spell’s cost, the cost reduction still applies.
(wotc • 2004-10-04)
This can lower the cost to zero, but not below zero.
(wotc • 2004-10-04)