Accelerate and Deflect Costs

Accelerate normally offers an extra 1 Energy and 1 Power to make the unit enter ready. Decide while playing it, then include that cost in the total. Once the unit is on the board, you cannot go back and buy Accelerate. Multiple instances do not add another benefit.

Legion Rearguard normally costs 2 Energy. Choose Accelerate and, before other cost changes, its total becomes 3 Energy plus 1 Fury Power. Decline and it normally enters exhausted. Paying Accelerate means it enters ready directly; it does not first enter exhausted and then become ready, so an ability watching for the unit to become ready does not trigger from this replacement.

For a single-domain unit, Accelerate’s Power must match that Domain. For a domainless unit, any-domain Power works. A single-Fury unit therefore needs Fury Power for its optional Accelerate cost.

Ignoring a card’s ordinary cost normally ignores its base Energy and Power, not the optional additional costs you elect to pay. If an effect lets you ignore Legion Rearguard’s base cost and you choose Accelerate, the Accelerate cost still joins the total. Do not infer that free base cost means free optional extras.

A suitable reduction can reduce an optional additional cost to zero. You still have to choose to pay that optional cost; it counts as paid when that decision is made, even if the actual amount after reductions is zero. A new-choice effect later cannot reopen that optional-payment decision. Choices come first, then the normal total-cost calculation and payment.

Deflect X adds X Power of any Domain for each time an opposing spell or ability chooses that permanent. No printed number means 1. Multiple Deflect values on the permanent add together. The extra cost is mandatory and does not need to match the spell’s or target’s Domain.

Example - An opposing spell chooses a unit with Deflect 2 twice, using two permitted target choices. It owes 2 + 2 = 4 extra Power. If the unit also gained Deflect 1, the combined value would be 3, so two choices would add 6 Power. Repeat can create multiple choices, but only when the underlying instructions legally permit them.

If an effect later allows new choices for a finalized spell or ability, whose choices, costs and legality checks are complete, any extra cost to play caused by those new choices is ignored. Changing a target to a unit with Deflect does not charge a new Deflect payment. This is different from choosing that unit twice during the original play.

Worked comparison - Original play chooses Deflect 2 once: pay 2 extra Power. Original play chooses it twice: pay 4. After finalization, a permitted new-choice effect changes a target to that permanent: no new Deflect charge. The new target must still be legal, and becoming newly targeted can trigger an ability; ignoring the extra cost does not ignore the targeting event.