Card
Akal Pakal, First Among Equals
Mana cost {2}{U}
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor 1/5
At the beginning of each player's end step, if an artifact entered the battlefield under your control this turn, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · LCI · #44
- Cheapest printing
- €0.08
- EDHREC salt
- 0.13
- Color identity
- Blue
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
- 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
If there is only one card in your library, you put it into your hand. - 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
The ability will trigger no matter what happened to the artifact after it entered. It may have left the battlefield, come under another player's control, or stopped being an artifact.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast