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Infinitely Insidious

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Galvanoth

{3}{R}{R}

Creature — Beast

Mirrodin Besieged

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At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. You may cast it without paying its mana cost if it's an instant or sorcery spell.

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Date Posted: Sun Jul/13/14 at 11:56 pm

terakhan
Posts: 636
Joined: 24-Mar-13

Just another way to pull off Omniscience + Enter the Infinite.

Get the Galvanoth out, and sometime between then and its upkeep trigger resolving, cast Insidious Dreams, pitching two cards to put Omni and EtI on top of your deck, Omni as the very top card.

Galvanoth resolves and you cast Omniscience for free.
Then you draw your next card, which is Enter the Infinite, and cast that for free, along with whatever else is in your deck that you want after it resolves.

Playable with singleton copies of the two blue spells, in a Rakdos-color deck for surprise factor.
Date Posted: Mon Jul/14/14 at 3:20am

knarf_the_dwarf
Posts: 1370
Joined: 30-Nov-11

Honestly spoken I'm not sure whether this works or not.
When the Galvanoth Triggers resolve
"At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it's an instant or sorcery card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost."
then I look at the top card. If the conditions are satisfied the ability to cast the instant or sorcery card without paying its mana cost is linked to the card revealed. If I cast the Insidious Dreams between and put Omni on top, I reveal the Omni, the conditions are not satisfied and I cannot cast Omni for free.
Am I wrong?
Date Posted: Mon Jul/14/14 at 8:08am

terakhan
Posts: 636
Joined: 24-Mar-13

You can't cast Insidious Dreams (or anything else) while an ability is resolving. You'd cast Insidious Dreams, at the latest, when the Galvanoth triggers. The Dreams resolve first, letting you stack the top of your deck.
Then if nothing else happens, the Galvanoth finally resolves. This is when the ability even looks to see if you can cast the top card. After all, you can't know if the top card is an instant or sorcery until you look, and you can't look before the ability is resolving.
Date Posted: Mon Jul/14/14 at 8:14am

knarf_the_dwarf
Posts: 1370
Joined: 30-Nov-11

"Galvanoth resolves and you cast Omniscience for free."
Omniscience is neither an instant nor a sorcery.
This is the Point I'm confused about. So how do you cast the Omniscience by the Galvanoth?
Date Posted: Mon Jul/14/14 at 9:23am

terakhan
Posts: 636
Joined: 24-Mar-13

Bah, you are completely right. Somewhere in my brain I had it filed away as a single turn sorcery spell, rather than an enchantment.

Combo fail.