Card

Xavier Sal, Infested Captain

Mana cost {B}{G}{U}

Legendary Creature — Human Fungus Pirate 3/3

{T}, Remove a counter from another permanent you control: Populate. Activate only as a sorcery. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.) {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Proliferate. Activate only as a sorcery. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 218 known combos. 11 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · LCC · #14
Cheapest printing
€0.89
EDHREC salt
0.25
Color identity
Black, Green, Blue
Keywords
Proliferate, Populate

Scryfall · EDHREC

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

218 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2024-01-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    The new creature token copies the characteristics of the original token as stated by the effect that created the original token.
  • 2024-01-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you choose to copy a creature token that's a copy of another creature, the new creature token will copy the characteristics of whatever the original token is copying.
  • 2024-01-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied token will trigger when the new token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the copied token will also work.
  • 2024-01-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you control no creature tokens when you populate, nothing will happen.
  • 2024-01-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    Populate doesn't target the creature token you're copying. You choose that creature token as you're taking the populate action. You can choose any creature token you control. If a spell or ability causes you to create a creature token and then instructs you to populate, you may choose to copy the token you just created, or you may choose to copy another creature token you control.
  • 2024-01-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    The new token doesn't copy whether the original token is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any noncopy effects that have changed its power, toughness, color, and so on.
  • 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
    You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.
  • 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
    Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.
  • 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
    If a player or permanent has more than one kind of counter on it, and you choose for it to get additional counters, it must get one of each kind of counter it already has. You can't have it get just one kind of counter it already has and not the others.
  • 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
    An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
  • 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
    To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can choose any player who has a counter, including opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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