Desdemona, Freedom's Edge

Rulings

7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

• 2024-03-08

  If you cast a spell with its escape permission, you can't choose to apply any other alternative costs or to cast it without paying its mana cost. You may pay any optional additional costs the spell has, such as kicker costs. If it has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.

• 2024-03-08

  To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an escape cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was and no matter whether an alternative cost was paid.

• 2024-03-08

  Once you begin casting a spell with escape, it immediately moves to the stack. Players can't take any other actions until you're done casting the spell.

• 2024-03-08

  If a card has multiple abilities giving you permission to cast it, such as two escape abilities or an escape ability and a flashback ability, you choose which one to apply. The others have no effect.

• 2024-03-08

  If a spell you're casting with escape has an additional cost of discarding cards or sacrificing permanents, you may exile cards discarded or sacrificed this way to pay that part of its escape cost.

• 2024-03-08

  After an escaped permanent spell resolves, it enters the battlefield and will return to its owner's graveyard if it dies later.

• 2024-03-08

  Escape's permission doesn't change when you may cast the spell from your graveyard.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Desdemona, Freedom's Edge, whatever its commander.