Wizardsin rulingeistä löytyy tämä (siis
tämän alalaidasta):
4.10.2004 Ertai's Meddling can't be played through any way that doesn't pay its mana cost. This is because the X in the Meddling's mana cost can't be 0, but effects that allow spells to be played without paying their mana costs set X to 0.