Pause for Reflection

set	min	mtgo
-	3.29	0.03 tix

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Name	Pause for Reflection
Type	Instant
Description	Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.) Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Artist	Alayna Danner
Set	Guilds of Ravnica #140
Wallpaper	download
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About Pause for Reflection

Pause for Reflection, Instant, designed by Alayna Danner first released in Oct, 2018 in the set Guilds of Ravnica. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 3.29.

A deck focused on creature-based strategies, such as a green-white aggro or midrange deck, would benefit from using Pause for Reflection in Magic: The Gathering. It can help protect your creatures by preventing all combat damage for a turn, allowing you to maintain board presence and potentially swing the game in your favor. While there may be better options for combat protection spells, such as Rootborn Defenses or Unbreakable Formation, Pause for Reflection could still see play in certain metagames or strategies where its unique combination of convoke and combat damage prevention is valuable.

Rules

03/19/21

If a creature you control has a mana ability with in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with convoke will result in the creature being tapped before you pay the spell’s costs. You won’t be able to tap it again for convoke. Similarly, if you sacrifice a creature to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with convoke, that creature won’t be on the battlefield when you pay the spell’s costs, so you won’t be able to tap it for convoke.

03/19/21

You can tap any untapped creature you control to convoke a spell, even one you haven’t controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.

10/05/18

Tapping a multicolored creature using convoke will pay for or one mana of your choice of any of that creature’s colors.

10/05/18

When calculating a spell’s total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Convoke applies after the total cost is calculated.

10/05/18

You can tap an untapped creature you haven’t controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn to convoke a spell.