Anointed Peacekeeper names Engineered Explosives
Asked by Andromedus 1 year ago
I want to make sure I understand how this interaction works.
I play an Anointed Peacekeeper and name Engineered Explosives.
After that, my opponent casts Engineered Explosives on their turn, intending to set the number of charge counters to 1.
Am I correct that in order to do this, he will need to tap only 2 total mana (to pay the Peacekeeper tax) being careful that those two mana are either the same color, or one of them is colorless? Meaning he can pay zero for Engineered Explosives' baseline cost as if he were casting it for 0, and then account for the 2 colorless, which then brings the charge counters up to one?
Or does he need to pay for the single charge counter with a mana, and then pay two additional mana? And if so does the color of the two additional mana matter?
Secondly, if I had two Anointed Peacekeepers both with Engineered Explosivess named, would he would need to have some combination of mono-color mana plus colorless adding up to 4 total in order to cast it with 1 charge counter? Or again, would he need to account for the initial 1 mana first, and then add the 4 "colorless" after that?
Andromedus says... #2
Ok great, that's what I thought but wanted to be sure. Thank you!
Delphen7 says... Accepted answer #1
He can declare X as any number, and as long as he pays the same color for all of it, EE will enter with one counter.
Ruling on EE: "You can choose any value for X as you cast Engineered Explosives. The value chosen for X doesn't directly affect the number of charge counters Engineered Explosives enters the battlefield with, but it does let you pay more mana and thus spend more colors of mana to cast it. (2020-08-07)"
Conversely, he can declare X as 0, and the additional cost from Anointed Peacekeeper will count as mana spent on the spell.
702.44b: "Sunburst adds counters only if the object with sunburst is entering the battlefield from the stack as a resolving spell and only if one or more colored mana was spent on its costs, including additional or alternative costs."
As long as he's careful to pay the same color for all of the Peacekeepers, EE will enter with just one counter regardless of declared X.
March 28, 2023 10:09 p.m.