Phyrexian Missionary

Phyrexian Missionary

{1}{W}Creature — Phyrexian Human Cleric2/3

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Kicker {1}{B} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} as you cast this spell.)

Lifelink

When this creature enters, if it was kicked, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

What it does

Tagged as Recursion · Lifegain — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.

Keyword reminders

Lifelink. Damage dealt by this also causes its controller to gain that much life. · CR 702.15 Read more →
Kicker. You may pay an additional cost as you cast this for a bonus effect. · CR 702.33

Official rulings

  1. If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked. (2024-11-08)
  2. If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked." (2024-11-08)
  3. If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was. (2024-11-08)
  4. The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once. (2024-11-08)
  5. To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was. (2024-11-08)
  6. If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it. (2024-11-08)

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