If I can, and I cast another Raven's Crime, can I choose any of the other spells on Spellweaver Helix to cast without paying their mana costs, or do I get to cast each of those spells?
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If Spellweaver Helix's first ability triggers more than once upon entering the battlefield under your control, you choose targets separately for each such triggered ability that thereafter goes on the stack (C.R. 603.3, 603.3d, 601.2c). The targets can be the same or different. However, if you target the same card this way and one Spellweaver Helix ability exiles that card, the other Spellweaver Helix ability or abilities on the stack will have illegal targets (C.R. 608.2b). Therefore, in general, targeting the same card or cards this way will have little practical effect, if any. See also this thread.
Where Spellweaver Helix's second ability says "the other", it means all other cards exiled with Spellweaver Helix (C.R. 607.3, 607.2a). Thus, when that ability resolves, you may copy all those other cards.
To clarify a particular situation: If four cards, at least two of which have the same name, are exiled with Spellweaver Helix and a player casts a spell with that name, Spellweaver Helix's second ability lets you choose to copy three of those cards other than one of those cards with that name.
EDIT: Correctness edit after comment 4 was posted.
EDIT (Sep. 13): Edited.
607.3. If, within a pair of linked abilities, one ability refers to a single object as “the exiled card,” “a card exiled with [this card],” or a similar phrase, and the other ability has exiled multiple cards (usually because it was copied), the ability refers to each of the exiled cards. If that ability asks for any information about the exiled card, such as a characteristic or converted mana cost, it gets multiple answers. If these answers are used to determine the value of a variable, the sum of the answers is used. If that ability performs any actions on the exiled card, it performs that action on each exiled card.
So you get a copy of each other sorcery exiled with the Helix.
When you cast Spellweaver Helix I believe its imprint ability constitutes as a triggered ability. So if I cast Spellweaver Helix with a Panharmonicon in play, can I imprint four sorceries, let's say a Raven's Crime, Cruel Ultimatum, Time Stretch and, oh, Army of the Damned?
If I can, and I cast another Raven's Crime, can I choose any of the other spells on Spellweaver Helix to cast without paying their mana costs, or do I get to cast each of those spells?
Thanks in advance for your help,
'buster
HR Analyst. Gamer. Activist | Fearless, and forthright | Aggro-control is a mindset.
Elspeth and Jhoira rock my world.
Where Spellweaver Helix's second ability says "the other", it means all other cards exiled with Spellweaver Helix (C.R. 607.3, 607.2a). Thus, when that ability resolves, you may copy all those other cards.
To clarify a particular situation: If four cards, at least two of which have the same name, are exiled with Spellweaver Helix and a player casts a spell with that name, Spellweaver Helix's second ability lets you choose to copy three of those cards other than one of those cards with that name.
EDIT: Correctness edit after comment 4 was posted.
EDIT (Sep. 13): Edited.
So you get a copy of each other sorcery exiled with the Helix.
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