Card
Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor
Mana cost {2}{R}
Legendary Creature — Human Knight 3/3
Whenever Varchild deals combat damage to a player, that player creates that many 1/1 red Survivor creature tokens. Survivors your opponents control can't block, and they can't attack you or planeswalkers you control. When Varchild leaves the battlefield, gain control of all Survivors.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · C18 · #28
- Cheapest printing
- €3.14
- EDHREC salt
- 0.20
- Color identity
- Red
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
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2018-07-13 · Wizards of the Coast
Survivor is a creature type. Varchild's second ability affects any creatures your opponents control that happen to be Survivors, not just the Survivor tokens it creates. Similarly, its third ability affects all creatures that happen to be Survivors. A creature that's all creature types is a Survivor. - 2018-07-13 · Wizards of the Coast
Varchild's second ability isn't locked in as Survivor tokens are created. For example, if a player gains control of Varchild, that player's Survivor tokens may attack Varchild's former controller. - 2018-07-13 · Wizards of the Coast
The player who creates the Survivor tokens owns them, not Varchild's controller.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast