"Progress update: the problem of the slagheap blocking the entrance seems to have solved itself."
—Mine supervisor's report

Lodestone Golem

Nonartifact spells cost {1} more to cast.

"Somehow it warps the Æther. It brings a strange weight, a blockade in the flow of spellcraft."
—Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts

Modern Masters 2015

Archenemy

When determining a spell's total cost, effects that increase the cost are applied before effects that reduce the cost.

The ability affects each spell that's not an artifact spell, including your own.

The ability affects the total cost of each nonartifact spell, but it doesn't change that spell's mana cost or mana value. The extra mana also doesn't change how many times you kicked the spell or what the value of X is (if applicable).