Card
Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch
Mana cost {2}{B}{R}
Legendary Creature — Human Cleric 3/3
First strike, haste Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.) Each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has haste.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · DGM · #69
- Cheapest printing
- €0.38
- EDHREC salt
- 0.11
- Color identity
- Black, Red
- Keywords
- First strike, Haste, Unleash
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
- 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
The unleash ability applies no matter where the creature is entering the battlefield from. - 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
Putting a +1/+1 counter on a creature with unleash that’s already blocking won’t remove it from combat. It will continue to block. - 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
A creature with unleash can’t block if it has any +1/+1 counter on it, not just one put on it by the unleash ability. - 2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast
You make the choice to have the creature with unleash enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter or not as it’s entering the battlefield. At that point, it’s too late for a player to respond to the creature spell by trying to counter it, for example.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast