Delve

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Delve
Keyword Ability
Type Static
Introduced Future Sight
Last used Fate Reforged
Reminder Text Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Statistics 22 cards
{U}32% {B}59% {G}9%
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Delve is an alternative cost payment keyword ability. It was introduced in Future Sight. At the time, it was only printed on three timeshifted cards and was a cost reduction. It was re-introduced as the clan specific mechanic for the Sultai Brood in Khans of Tarkir [1] and Fate Reforged.[2]

Rules

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Rulings

  • The rules for delve have changed slightly since it was last in an expansion. Previously, delve reduced the cost to cast a spell. Under the current rules, you exile cards from your graveyard at the same time you pay the spell’s cost. Exiling a card this way is simply another way to pay that cost. [This is similar to the change made to convoke for the Magic 2015 Core Set.]
  • Delve doesn’t change a spell’s mana cost or converted mana cost. For example, Dead Drop’s converted mana cost is 10 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.
  • You can’t exile cards to pay for the colored mana requirements of a spell with delve.
  • You can’t exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can’t exile more than nine cards from your graveyard to cast Dead Drop.
  • Because delve isn’t an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.

Examples

Cards with Delve

Card Set
Logic Knot Future Sight
Death Rattle Future Sight
Tombstalker Future Sight
Dig Through Time Khans of Tarkir
Set Adrift Khans of Tarkir
Treasure Cruise Khans of Tarkir
Dead Drop Khans of Tarkir
Empty the Pits Khans of Tarkir
Murderous Cut Khans of Tarkir
Necropolis Fiend Khans of Tarkir
Shambling Attendants Khans of Tarkir
Sultai Scavenger Khans of Tarkir
Become Immense Khans of Tarkir
Hooting Mandrills Khans of Tarkir
Gurmag Angler "Fate Reforged"
Sibsig Muckdraggers "Fate Reforged"
Soulflayer "Fate Reforged"
Tasigur, the Golden Fang "Fate Reforged"
Tasigur's Cruelty "Fate Reforged"
Temporal Trespass "Fate Reforged"
Will of the Naga "Fate Reforged"

References

Template:Clans of Tarkir mechanics