Card
Hamza, Guardian of Arashin
Mana cost {4}{G}{W}
Legendary Creature — Elephant Warrior 5/5
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.
Part of 142 known combos, 2 of them two-card. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · MOC · #327
- Cheapest printing
- €0.18
- EDHREC salt
- 0.29
- Color identity
- Green, White
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Ancestral Statue, Primordial Mist
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Ancestral Statue, Primordial Mist
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: Its two-card combos are not early, which Bracket 3 allows
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Ancestral Statue, Primordial Mist (none of them early)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
142 known combos, 2 of them two-card.
- Ancestral Statue + Hamza, Guardian of Arashin
Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook - Appa, Steadfast Guardian + Hamza, Guardian of Arashin + Aang, Airbending Master
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook - Scrap Trawler + Myr Retriever + Ashnod's Altar + Hamza, Guardian of Arashin
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2020-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
Once you announce you're casting a creature spell, no player may take actions until the spell has been paid for. Notably, opponents can't try to change the number of creatures you control with +1/+1 counters. - 2020-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
Hamza's first ability affects only generic mana costs. It can't reduce the total cost to cast the spell below {G}{W}. - 2020-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Hamza, Guardian of Arashin). The total cost is locked in before any costs are paid. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast