Thunderscape Familiar

one generic mana one red mana Creature — KavuPower and toughness1/1

First strike

Black spells and green spells you cast cost one generic mana less to cast.

Thunderscape masters release familiars to help guide their apprentices down the thunderscape path.

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Thunderscape Familiar rulings

2004-10-04
If a spell is both black and green, you pay less, not less.
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The generic X cost is still considered generic even if there is a requirement that a specific color be used for it. For example, “only black mana can be spent this way”. This distinction is important for effects which reduce the generic portion of a spell’s cost.
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This can lower the cost to zero, but not below zero.
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The effect is cumulative.
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The lower cost is not optional like with some other cost reducers.
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Can never affect the colored part of the cost.
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If this card is sacrificed to pay part of a spell’s cost, the cost reduction still applies.

Thunderscape Familiar keyword rules

First strike Rule 702.7

First strike is a static ability that modifies the rules for the combat damage step. (See rule , “Combat Damage Step.”)

If at least one attacking or blocking creature has first strike or double strike (see rule ) as the combat damage step begins, the only creatures that assign combat damage in that step are those with first strike or double strike. After that step, instead of proceeding to the end of combat step, the phase gets a second combat damage step. The only creatures that assign combat damage in that step are the remaining attackers and blockers that had neither first strike nor double strike as the first combat damage step began, as well as the remaining attackers and blockers that currently have double strike. After that step, the phase proceeds to the end of combat step.

Giving first strike to a creature without it after combat damage has already been dealt in the first combat damage step won’t preclude that creature from assigning combat damage in the second combat damage step. Removing first strike from a creature after it has already dealt combat damage in the first combat damage step won’t allow it to also assign combat damage in the second combat damage step (unless the creature has double strike).

Multiple instances of first strike on the same creature are redundant.