TR&CI 132: Vexing Bauble - Why Does It NOT Counter All Free Spells? 

Are you the Kellan deck guy?

"enjoyed" is a word... I was shown the power of the dark side.

@@user-ye5ci7fw7o Yup, he is my Oppenheimer buddy. He built the bomb that never should have been built.

She is safe.

Oh snap, that's one way to think about it... a wrong way, but still a way. I've never heard that one before.

Yeah, the Cave is solid, not nearly as busted as some of the other lands, but entering untapped is still just such a crazy thing. That and the land it searches for enters straight to the BF, not to hand.

Ha! Thanks Thalia for helping out!

Oh dang, that's really cool that she helped you by hurting you.

Yep Lavinia also gets non bo with tax effects so makes sense.

Very, very pricey with how many of them of each I'll need. Can't wait to phase out my Commander with a land against a board wipe.

Yeah, a little softball, but still a handy one for some players. Might crank it up a bit for next week.

Yeah, I thought about mentioning those things, but I didn't want to make the episode too long... Of course the video got to be really long cause of the rant at the end... So yeah......

Magecraft cares about copying a spell. Isochron copies a card, not a spell, then casts it. To copy a spell, the spell has to be on the stack

Oh snap, sorry I missed your comment a few days ago, but PiLovesDeadpool got a good reply there. Magecraft does trigger for copies and casts, but specifically a copy of a spell or casting of a spell, in both cases a spell. With the Scepter, it will trigger the Magecraft but only once, for when the copy is cast, but the thing you're copying is a card, not a spell. On a somewhat similar note, a Twinning Staff would not cause you to get two things off your Scepter cause the Staff only adds an additional copy made of a spell and again the only thing being copied from the Scepter is the card. Hope this helps.

Good question, and yes it does. They don't just have to be spells you're trying to 'cheat' by ignoring their cost, but just any spell like Ornithopter that have 0 as their cost would be countered. In addition, if you had Helm of Awakening out and played your Skullclamp, there isn't a way you could still try to pay 1 for it, any mana you add to your pool would just float and the Skullclamp couldn't have any mana be spent on it and it would be countered.

Not everything, only when you make a copy of the card in a Zone other than the Stack. Here's the respective CR for what it means to be cast, "601.2. To cast a spell is to take it from where it is (usually the hand), put it on the stack...". I hope this helps you out.

Yup, it will. It's not just when you 'cheat' something's mana, like the Alternative Cast of Force of WIll, even something like an Ornithopter will be countered or a Mishra's Bauble.

Kaalia's ability doesn't have you cast the creatures from your hand, they're just put onto the BF as part of the resolution of her ability.

Tis a powerful card and Commander.