Card
Master of Waves
Mana cost {3}{U}
Protection from red Elemental creatures you control get +1/+1. When this creature enters, create a number of 1/0 blue Elemental creature tokens equal to your devotion to blue. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 6 known combos. 7 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · THS · #53
- Cheapest printing
- €0.38
- EDHREC salt
- 0.33
- Color identity
- Blue
- Keywords
- Protection
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
6 known combos.
- Esix, Fractal Bloom + Biovisionary + Master of Waves
Produces: Win the game
View on Commander Spellbook - Barrin, Master Wizard + Master of Waves + Phyrexian Altar
Produces: Infinite colored mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Cloudstone Curio + Phyrexian Altar + Master of Waves
Produces: Infinite colored mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2013-09-15 · Wizards of the Coast
Barring other effects, the Elemental tokens will enter the battlefield as 2/1 creatures. - 2013-09-15 · Wizards of the Coast
If Master of Waves leaves the battlefield, and nothing else is raising the toughness of the Elemental tokens above 0, the Elemental tokens will die and subsequently cease to exist. - 2013-09-15 · Wizards of the Coast
Numeric mana symbols ({0}, {1}, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color. - 2013-09-15 · Wizards of the Coast
Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s). - 2013-09-15 · Wizards of the Coast
Use your devotion to blue as the triggered ability resolves to determine how many tokens are put onto the battlefield. If Master of Waves is still on the battlefield at that time, its mana cost will count toward your devotion to blue. - 2013-09-15 · Wizards of the Coast
Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color. - 2013-09-15 · Wizards of the Coast
If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it's still on the battlefield at that time.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast