Keyword ability

Improvise

Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.

A spell that costs {3}{U} can be cast for {U} by tapping three untapped artifacts for improvise.

First appeared in: Aether Revolt

78 Magic: The Gathering cards with improvise — showing the 70 most recent.

How improvise works in MTG.

Example: A spell that costs {3}{U} can be cast for {U} by tapping three untapped artifacts for improvise.

Rules and interactions

  • Improvise pays only generic mana, never colored mana.
  • Artifacts tapped for improvise are not activating mana abilities; even artifacts without tap abilities can help.
  • You cannot tap one artifact both for improvise and for its own tap ability during the same payment.
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