Card

Azlask, the Swelling Scourge

Mana cost {3}

Legendary Creature — Eldrazi 2/2

Whenever Azlask or another colorless creature you control dies, you get an experience counter. {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of experience counters you have. Scions and Spawns you control gain indestructible and annihilator 1 until end of turn.

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 2 known combos. 4 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Mythic · M3C · #5
Cheapest printing
€0.37
EDHREC salt
0.78
Color identity
Black, Green, Red, Blue, White

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

2 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    The value of X is determined only once, as Azlask's last ability resolves.
  • 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    Annihilator abilities trigger and resolve during the declare attackers step. The defending player sacrifices the required number of permanents of their choice before they declare blockers. Any creatures sacrificed this way won't be able to block.
  • 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    If a creature with annihilator is attacking a planeswalker, and the defending player chooses to sacrifice that planeswalker, the attacking creature continues to attack. It may be blocked. If it isn't blocked, it simply won't deal combat damage to anything.
  • 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    All experience counters are identical, no matter how you got them. For example, the last ability will count experience counters that you got from the first ability, from another ability, from proliferating, and so on.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast