I'm currently playing Lazav, the Multifarious on Magic Online, and with Training Grounds in play, I can change him into any two mana creature or less in my graveyard, without using any mana.
This confuses me as Training Grounds says 'This effect can't reduce the amount of mana an ability costs to activate to less than one mana.'
Is this a bug, or is there some funky interaction that occurs that allows this to happen within the rules?
This seems to be a bug, the ability should cost at least 1, unless the value chosen for X is 0. A cost reduction effect like the Grounds' applies after the value of X is chosen, and if X is 2, Grounds can only apply partially, it should reduce the total cost to 1.
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This confuses me as Training Grounds says 'This effect can't reduce the amount of mana an ability costs to activate to less than one mana.'
Is this a bug, or is there some funky interaction that occurs that allows this to happen within the rules?
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