Rishkar's Expertise
Sorcery
$3.64
Market price
$4.24
Foil
41
Public decks
Rules Text
"Control the Great Conduit? You might as well try to divert a river with your hands."
Card Facts
Legality
Brawl
LegalCommander
LegalCompetitive Brawl
LegalDuel Commander
LegalGladiator
LegalHistoric
LegalLegacy
LegalModern
LegalOathbreaker
LegalPenny Dreadful
LegalPioneer
LegalTimeless
LegalVintage
LegalAlchemy
Not legalFuture
Not legalOld School
Not legalPauper
Not legalPauper Commander
Not legalPreDH
Not legalPremodern
Not legalStandard
Not legalStandard Brawl
Not legalTLR
Not legalRulings
- Apr 18, 2017 · Wizards of the Coast
The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If an expertise spell allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half or, if that split card has fuse, both halves.
- Feb 9, 2017 · Wizards of the Coast
If you control no creatures with power greater than 0 as Rishkar's Expertise resolves, you draw no cards, but you may cast a card with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
- Feb 9, 2017 · Wizards of the Coast
You may cast one of the cards drawn by Rishkar's Expertise's first effect while performing its second effect.
- Feb 9, 2017 · Wizards of the Coast
A card's mana value is determined solely by the mana symbols printed in its upper right corner. The mana value is the total amount of mana in that cost, regardless of color. For example, a card with mana cost {1}{U}{U} has mana value 3. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions that could apply to it. A card with no mana cost has a mana value of 0.
- Feb 9, 2017 · Wizards of the Coast
If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
- Feb 9, 2017 · Wizards of the Coast
The greatest power among creatures you control is determined as Rishkar's Expertise resolves.
- Feb 9, 2017 · Wizards of the Coast
If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs, such as emerge costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Cathartic Reunion, you must pay those to cast the card.
- Feb 9, 2017 · Wizards of the Coast
While you're casting your free spell, the Expertise spell is still on the stack. It will be put into its owner's graveyard after the free spell is cast. The free spell can't target the Expertise card in your graveyard. It can target the Expertise spell on the stack, but the Expertise spell will become an illegal target before the free spell resolves.
- Feb 9, 2017 · Wizards of the Coast
Any triggered abilities that trigger while performing the Expertise spell's first effect won't be put onto the stack until after you're done casting your free spell. They're put onto the stack at the same time as any abilities that triggered while casting that spell regardless of the order in which those abilities triggered.
- Feb 9, 2017 · Wizards of the Coast
Effects that allow you to "cast" a card don't allow you to play a land card.
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Decks using this card
41 public decks run Rishkar's Expertise; here are the 8 most recently updated.






