Whir of Invention
Instant
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for 
.)
Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- Set
- Special Guests (SPG #86)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2025-02-14
- Artist
- Brian Chippendale
- EDHREC rank
- #1,317
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Format legality
Rulings
- 2017-02-09
Because improvise isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.
- 2017-02-09
Equipment attached to a creature doesn't become tapped when that creature becomes tapped, and tapping that Equipment doesn't cause the creature to become tapped.
- 2017-02-09
If an artifact you control has a mana ability with
in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with improvise will result in the artifact being tapped when you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for improvise. Similarly, if you sacrifice an artifact to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with improvise, that artifact won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for improvise. - 2017-02-09
Improvise can't be used to pay for anything other than the cost of casting the spell. For example, it can't be used during the resolution of an ability that says "Counter target spell unless its controller pays
." - 2017-02-09
Improvise can't pay for
, , 
, 
, 
, or 
mana symbols in a spell's total cost. - 2017-02-09
Improvise doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.
- 2017-02-09
Tapping an artifact won't cause its abilities to stop applying unless those abilities say so.
- 2017-02-09
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. Improvise applies after the total cost is calculated.
- 2017-02-09
When using improvise to cast a spell with
in its mana cost, first choose the value for X. That choice, plus any cost increases or decreases, will determine the spell's total cost. Then you can tap artifacts you control to help pay that cost. For example, if you cast Whir of Invention (a spell with improvise and mana cost ) and choose X to be 3, the total cost is . If you tap two artifacts, you'll have to pay .