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How Do Repeat Choices and Costs Work?
Pay Repeat while playing a spell or ability to execute its instructions again when it resolves.
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The short answer
RepeatAn optional additional cost on a spell or ability. Paying it once adds one more execution of that item's resolution instructions. Choices for each execution are made at their usual times.View in Glossary is an optional Additional CostA payment added to a card or ability's base cost. Mandatory additional costs must be paid; optional ones become part of the payment when you choose them. A chosen optional additional cost reduced to 0 still counts as paid.View in Glossary . Pay an instance's listed cost as you play the spell or ability, and its instructions execute one extra time during resolution. Each Repeat instance may be paid once; if there are several, you can choose each separately.
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How it works
Card reference
Feral Strength
For each execution, choose ModeAn option in a spell or ability's bulleted choice list. Choose the permitted mode or modes when putting it on the Chain, rather than waiting for it to resolve.View in Glossary and TargetA specific object, player or zone chosen by a spell or ability under the targeting rules. Check legality when choosing and when resolving. Costs, automatic groups and explicit "pick" choices do not target; pending Chain items cannot be targeted.View in Glossary at their normal choice step while playing the spell or ability, before it resolves. You may choose different modes or targets for the extra execution, or use the same legal choice again. Other choices are made at their usual time. Specify the order when separate choices will be handled in sequence. RepeatAn optional additional cost on a spell or ability. Paying it once adds one more execution of that item's resolution instructions. Choices for each execution are made at their usual times.View in Glossary does not create another play, so a 'when you play' effect does not trigger twice. Instructions that happen while playing, such as an Additional CostA payment added to a card or ability's base cost. Mandatory additional costs must be paid; optional ones become part of the payment when you choose them. A chosen optional additional cost reduced to 0 still counts as paid.View in Glossary , are not repeated; only resolution instructions are.
Spell
Feral Strength
[Reaction] (Play any time, even before spells and abilities resolve.) [Repeat] [Energy 2] (You may pay the additional cost to repeat this spell's effect.) Give a unit +2 [Might] this turn.
In practice
Example
A spell says 'Deal 2 to a unit' and has Repeat with a cost of two Energy. You pay the spell's cost and the optional two Energy as you play it, choosing one unit for the first execution and another for the second. When it resolves, it deals 2 to the first unit, then 2 to the second; the spell was played only once.