Because the first time you cast the spell, it moves from the exile zone to the stack, and then to the graveyard when it resolves... so it's no longer exiled.
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When you cast the spell you take it from the exile zone and place it on the stack.
When it resolves it goes to the graveyard.
Once it's been moved from exile to the stack, it is no-longer associated with the cauldron. So you can no-longer cast it in that way.
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...:Put a charge counter on Ice Cauldron and exile a nonland card from your hand. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled. Note the type and amount of mana spent to pay this activation cost. Activate this ability only if there are no charge counters on Ice Cauldron.
nowhere I read said the card goes to the graveyard after I cast it. that's how I assumed it worked until I read the card several times.
so you're actually casting the spell... from the card... as though it were in your hand. Not just casting the spell from exile and leaving it in exile. It goes to your graveyard?
They should make it more clear.
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Any time a spell (non creature) resolves, unless it has a replacement effect (Flashback / Exile it, Buyback), it will go to the graveyard. Cards like Isochron Scepter Specifically put a copy of the exiled card on the stack, so the original never goes to the stack.
It doesn't really matter what happens to the card when the spell resolves. As soon as it's put onto the stack as part of casting it, it isn't considered to be the same object as the card exiled to the Cauldron. Even if the card ends up exiled again (Dissipate/Leyline of the Void/the spell just does that) it's not considered to be the same object.
Perhaps it could be more clear in the description (errata'ed reminder text?), but the mechanism is clearly defined from a rules standpoint by how the process of casting spells works.
Because the first time you cast the spell, it moves from the exile zone to the stack, and then to the graveyard when it resolves... so it's no longer exiled.
even if it was still exiled, say by leyline of the void, it wouldn't be exiled BY ice cauldron, so you would no longer be able to cast it using any of ice cauldrons abilities.
it's very difficult to cast a card without putting it on the stack as a spell. copying a card is completely different, but typically the first step of casting a card is to put it on the stack as a spell from wherever it was.
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What's to stop me from putting a Dark Ritual on Ice, cast it without taking the counter off, and then using the mana repeatedly to recast it?
What's to stop me from putting a Time Warp on Ice, and casting it turn after turn?
It says you can cast any spells on Ice Cauldron without taking the counter off. It says you can use other mana to cast the spells on it.
Pay the mana, put Time Warp on it, untap it, cast Warp, put a charge counter on it with whatever puts charge counters on artifacts... infinite turns?
Seriously? I read a reread the oracle wording and I can't see any reason why I can't.
When it resolves it goes to the graveyard.
Once it's been moved from exile to the stack, it is no-longer associated with the cauldron. So you can no-longer cast it in that way.
so you're actually casting the spell... from the card... as though it were in your hand. Not just casting the spell from exile and leaving it in exile. It goes to your graveyard?
They should make it more clear.
Perhaps it could be more clear in the description (errata'ed reminder text?), but the mechanism is clearly defined from a rules standpoint by how the process of casting spells works.
even if it was still exiled, say by leyline of the void, it wouldn't be exiled BY ice cauldron, so you would no longer be able to cast it using any of ice cauldrons abilities.
it's very difficult to cast a card without putting it on the stack as a spell. copying a card is completely different, but typically the first step of casting a card is to put it on the stack as a spell from wherever it was.