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total cost = mana cost or alternative cost + additional costs + cost increases + cost reducers + Trinisphere
1) Your choice for the value of X determines the mana cost
2) Overload is an alternative cost
3) Kicker is an additional cost
4) Buyback is an additional cost
In all four cases, the influence on the total cost comes before the cost reducing of the Izzmagus, so the Izzmagus can reduce the increased cost.
Yes it will. When you're casting something without paying its mana cost, you can still choose to use buyback or kicker, you'll just have to pay for it yourself (it won't be free). But since you're casting the spell, Mizzix will be able to reduce the cost of it. So let's say you have Mizzix and five experience counters. You exiled Rite of Replication to Narset and want to cast it via kicker. You need to pay any additional costs, so the cost is 5. We apply cost reducers, and Mizzix reduces the cost by 5, so you end up paying nothing to cast the Rite with kicker.
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Scientists have calculated that the chance of anything so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
The mana cost or the chosen alternative cost (eg, Overload, Flashback); if there's a variable cost such as x, it's generally relevant here (there are, of course, exceptions, such as Verdeloth the Ancient)
I also love that Trinisphere gets its own specific mention
I forget whether Trinisphere was specifically called out in a previous version of the CR; it isn't called out specifically now, but it is the only card in the game with the effect described in that portion of the total cost calculation spelled out in the CR.
1) X= cards? Epic Experiment
2) Overload costs? Cyclonic Rift
3) Kicker costs? Urza's Rage
4) Buyback costs? Capsize
I think the answer is "yes" to 1 and 2, and "no" to 3 and 4, but honestly I have no idea how the rules work here.
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To calculate the total cost of a spell:
total cost = mana cost or alternative cost + additional costs + cost increases + cost reducers + Trinisphere
1) Your choice for the value of X determines the mana cost
2) Overload is an alternative cost
3) Kicker is an additional cost
4) Buyback is an additional cost
In all four cases, the influence on the total cost comes before the cost reducing of the Izzmagus, so the Izzmagus can reduce the increased cost.
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Scientists have calculated that the chance of anything so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
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I also love that Trinisphere gets its own specific mention
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Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Can I repeatedly cast this to increase the EXP counter?
You as the player get the experience counters, and you aren't a permanent or suspended card, so no.