Card

Nagging Thoughts

Sorcery


Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Madness (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)


  Shadows over Innistrad (SOI)
#74, Common

Illustrated by: Seb McKinnon
Multiverse ID: 409817

Not Legal Alchemy BO1
Not Legal Standard BO1
Not Legal Brawl
Not Legal Explorer BO1
Not Legal Historic BO1
Not Legal Traditional Standard
Not Legal Timeless BO1
Not Legal Traditional Alchemy
Not Legal Traditional Explorer
Not Legal Traditional Historic
Not Legal Traditional Timeless

Rulings

  • 2016-04-08
    If you discard a card with madness while resolving a spell or ability, it moves immediately to exile. Continue resolving that spell or ability—the card is not in your graveyard at this time. Its madness trigger will be placed onto the stack once that spell or ability has completely resolved.
  • 2016-04-08
    If you choose not to cast a card with madness when the madness triggered ability resolves, it's put into your graveyard. You don't get another chance to cast it later.
  • 2016-04-08
    When you cast a card with madness, it was still discarded. If it was discarded to pay a cost, that cost is still paid. Abilities that trigger when a card is discarded will still trigger.
  • 2016-04-08
    Madness works independently of why you're discarding the card. You could discard it to pay a cost, because a spell or ability tells you to, or even because you have too many cards in your hand at the end of your turn. You can't discard a card with madness just because you want to, though.
  • 2016-04-08
    Effects that cause you to pay more or less for a spell will cause you to pay that much more or less for its madness cost, too.
  • 2016-04-08
    Casting a spell for its madness cost doesn't change its mana cost or its converted mana cost. You just pay the madness cost instead.
  • 2016-04-08
    A spell cast for its madness cost is put onto the stack like any other spell. It can be countered, copied, and so on. As it resolves, it's put onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card or into its owner's graveyard if it's an instant or sorcery card.
  • 2016-04-08
    Cards are discarded in a Magic game only from a player's hand. Effects that put cards from a player's library into that player's graveyard do not cause those cards to be discarded.
  • 2016-04-08
    If you discard a card with madness to pay the cost of a spell or activated ability, that card's madness trigger (and the spell that card becomes, if you choose to cast it) will resolve before the spell or ability the discard paid for.
  • 2016-04-08
    If there is only one card left in your library, you'll put it into your hand. You won't lose the game for having zero cards in your library until you're required to draw a card.
  • 2016-04-08
    Casting a spell for its madness cost doesn’t change its mana cost or its converted mana cost. You just pay the madness cost instead.
  • 2016-04-08
    If there is only one card left in your library, you’ll put it into your hand. You won’t lose the game for having zero cards in your library until you’re required to draw a card.
  • 2016-04-08
    Cards are discarded in a Magic game only from a player’s hand. Effects that put cards from a player’s library into that player’s graveyard do not cause those cards to be discarded.
  • 2016-04-08
    A spell cast for its madness cost is put onto the stack like any other spell. It can be countered, copied, and so on. As it resolves, it’s put onto the battlefield if it’s a permanent card or into its owner’s graveyard if it’s an instant or sorcery card.
  • 2016-04-08
    Madness works independently of why you’re discarding the card. You could discard it to pay a cost, because a spell or ability tells you to, or even because you have too many cards in your hand at the end of your turn. You can’t discard a card with madness just because you want to, though.
  • 2016-04-08
    If you choose not to cast a card with madness when the madness triggered ability resolves, it’s put into your graveyard. You don’t get another chance to cast it later.
  • 2016-04-08
    If you discard a card with madness to pay the cost of a spell or activated ability, that card’s madness trigger (and the spell that card becomes, if you choose to cast it) will resolve before the spell or ability the discard paid for.
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