Historical Rules · 20 November 2020
Rule 118.3c
Official source text from the 20 November 2020 Rules release
Activating mana abilities is not mandatory, even if paying a cost is. Example: A player controls Lodestone Golem, which says “Nonartifact spells cost {1} more to cast.” Another player removes the last time counter from a suspended sorcery card. That player must cast that spell if able, but doing so costs {1}. The player is forced to pay that cost if enough mana is in their mana pool, but the player isn’t forced to activate a mana ability to produce that mana. If they don’t, the card simply remains exiled.