For Jinx number 30, do you need to recycle or not to accelerate?
To play Jinx, Demolitionist with Accelerate, you must pay the total costs associated with both her base play cost and the optional Accelerate additional cost.
The Breakdown of Costs
To play her accelerated, the total requirement is:
- Energy Cost: 4 Energy total (base cost).
- Power Cost: 2 Fury Power total (1 base power cost + 1 additional for the Accelerate power cost).
How to Pay
Because the Accelerate ability is an "Optional Additional Cost" (Rule 805.2), you pay it during the process of playing the card (Rules 357 and 805.1.a):
- Exhaust: You must exhaust 4 runes total to generate the 4 Energy needed.
- Recycle: You must recycle 2 Fury (red) runes total to generate the 2 Power needed. According to Rule 805.1.a.1, because Jinx is a Fury-domain unit, the Power portion of her Accelerate cost must be paid with a Power that matches her domain.
Summary
When playing Jinx, Demolitionist accelerated, you must exhaust 4 runes total and recycle 2 Fury runes total. This fulfills both the base card requirement and the optional Accelerate cost, allowing her to enter the battlefield ready.
Note: As per Rule 805.6, this is a replacement effect, so Jinx enters the board ready; she does not enter exhausted and then ready.
Note: I could not fully verify this ruling against the retrieved rules.