Splice
| Splice | |
|---|---|
| Keyword Ability | |
| Type | Static |
| Introduced | Champions of Kamigawa |
| Last used | Saviors of Kamigawa |
| Reminder Text | Splice onto (type) [cost] (As you cast an (type) spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.) |
| Statistics |
27 cards 32%  26%  14%  14%  14% |
| Scryfall Search | |
| keyword:"Splice" | |
Splice is a keyword ability on certain instants from the Kamigawa block that functions while the card is in your hand. It allows a player to essentially add the rules text of the card to another arcane spell he or she is playing.
Rulings
- You must reveal all of the cards you intend to splice at the same time. Each individual card can only be spliced once onto a spell.
- If you have more than one card with the same name in your hand, you may splice both of them onto the spell.
- A card with a splice ability can't be spliced onto itself because the spell is on the stack (and not in your hand) when you reveal the cards you want to splice onto it.
- The target for a card that's spliced onto a spell may be the same as the target chosen for the original spell or for another spliced-on card. (A recent change to the targeting rules allows this, but most other cards are unaffected by the change.)
- If you splice a targeted card onto an untargeted spell, the entire spell will be countered if the target isn't legal when the spell resolves.
- If you splice an untargeted card onto a targeted spell, the entire spell will be countered if the target isn't legal when the spell resolves.
- A spell is countered on resolution only if *all* of its targets are illegal (or the spell is countered by an effect).