This card Braids, Conjurer Adept , states that at the beginning of your upkeep you can play a card of various type onto the battlefield, but it doesn't state whether you pay the mana cost... Does that mean you don't have to?
It doesn't replace any phase, so everything is the same (with the exception that each player can put a card from their hand into play at the beginning of each of their upkeep)
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So does it replace the upkeep step (Main Phase 1?), or do you then use your turn as normal post this ability?
With this card on the battlefield, at the beginning of your upkeep (BEFORE you draw a card), you choose a card with one of the specified type (artifact, creature or land) and you PUT it on the battlefield. You don't cast the artifact/creature so it cannot be countered and your opponnent will only know what it is when it is already on the battlefield, and you do not play the land either. So later in the turn, during one of your main phases, you will be able to PLAY a land.
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In Braids case, EVENT = beginning of each player's upkeep EFFECT = that player may put an artifact, creature, or land card from his or her hand onto the battlefield
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So does it replace the upkeep step (Main Phase 1?), or do you then use your turn as normal post this ability?
Without Braids, your turn normally goes like this:
1- Untap your cards 2- Upkeep: do nothing 3- Draw one card 4- Main Phase + Combat Phase + Main Phase + End Turn
With Braids, your turn becomes:
1- Untap your cards 2- Upkeep: pick a card (artifact, creature or land) from among those in your hand and slap it on the table 3- Draw one card 4- Main Phase + Combat Phase + Main Phase + End Turn
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