Cmc

[Taysby]

Just checking, the cmc of {far away} is 5, correct?  I add up both halves to get the cmc?

[fj76ts4]

708.2. In every zone except the stack, split cards have two sets of characteristics and two converted mana costs. As long as a split card is a spell on the stack and wasn't cast using fuse (see rule 702.101, "Fuse"), only the characteristics of the half being cast exist. The other half's characteristics are treated as though they didn't exist. A split card that's a spell on the stack and was cast using fuse has two sets of characteristics and one converted mana cost. Its converted mana cost is equal to the total amount of mana in its two mana costs, regardless of color.

Nope, far and away has 2 cmcs, 2 and 3, unless you fuse it.

[abstractApathist]

So with {pain seer} I could choose to only lose 2?

4/15/2013   In every zone except the stack, split cards have two sets of characteristics and two converted mana costs. If anything needs information about a split card not on the stack, it will get two values.

You'll take 2 + 3 = 5 since it counts both costs.

[fj76ts4]

Split cards have 2 CMCs, but with bob or pain seer, when you reveal a split card, it checks for the CMC of the card, sees  2 and 3, and applies both, so you'd still lose 5.

sauce: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/af116