

For imprint cards with an ETB trigger, those are sometimes optional and sometimes not. This ability also shows up on creatures and enchantments. That imprinting can either care about something simple, like the color of the exiled card, or something more complicated, like allowing the permanent to cast a copy of the exiled card. That card is then imprinted on the permanent. The caster usually has the option on casting to exile a card from their hand. Someone else will have to help you with that.Imprint is an optional trigger when casting the permanent, usually an artifact. So if you've got a Semblance Anvil and a Prototype Portal in play, each imprinted with a Darksteel Sentinel, you'll still have to pay 6 to activate Prototype Portal's ability.īonus Question: I'm more of a rules guy than a deck advice guy. It doesn't cheapen ability costs, and it doesn't actually change anything's converted mana cost, it just lowers the cost paid for certain types of spells. Semblance Anvil only gives you a discount when casting spells. Second question: Semblance Anvil will never give you a discount on Prototype Portal's ability. So an exiled artifact creature on the anvil will give you a two mana discount to all your artifact, creature, and artifact creature spells. It doesn't need to have the exact same combination of card types, it just has to have one in common with the exiled card. The only thing Semblance Anvil asks of things wanting a discount is that it shares a card type.


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