Painful Truths
Sorcery
Converge — You draw X cards and lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.
As the Eldrazi spread, no secret that could give Zendikar's defenders an advantage was considered too dangerous to seek.
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar (BFZ #120)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2015-10-02
- Artist
- Winona Nelson
- EDHREC rank
- #1,702
- 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
- 2015-08-25
If a spell with a converge ability is copied, no mana was spent to cast the copy, so the number of colors of mana spent to cast the spell will be zero. The number of colors spent to cast the original spell is not copied.
- 2015-08-25
If there are any alternative or additional costs to cast a spell with a converge ability, the mana spent to pay those costs will count. For example, if an effect makes sorcery spells cost
more to cast, you could pay 
to cast Radiant Flames and deal 4 damage to each creature. - 2015-08-25
If you cast a spell with converge without spending any mana to cast it (perhaps because an effect allowed you to cast it without paying its mana cost), then the number of colors spent to cast it will be zero.
- 2015-08-25
The maximum number of colors of mana you can spend to cast a spell is five. Colorless is not a color. Note that the cost of a spell with converge may limit how many colors of mana you can spend.
- 2015-08-25
Unless a spell or ability allows you to, you can't choose to pay more mana for a spell with a converge ability just to spend more colors of mana. Likewise, if a spell or ability reduces the amount of mana it costs you to cast a spell with converge, you can't ignore that cost reduction in order to spend more colors of mana.