Card
Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
Mana cost {3}
Legendary Artifact Creature — Thopter 1/2
Flash Flying You may cast colorless spells and artifact spells as though they had flash. Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast that spell is greater than Liberator's power, put a +1/+1 counter on Liberator.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 7 known combos. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · BRO · #237
- Cheapest printing
- €4.72
- EDHREC salt
- 0.34
- Keywords
- Flying, Flash
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
7 known combos.
- Ulalek, Fused Atrocity + Drowner of Truth // Drowned Jungle + Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Glen Elendra Pranksters + Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter + Ornithopter + Shield Sphere
Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook - Glen Elendra Pranksters + Phyrexian Walker + Memnite + Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
The third ability applies only to casting spells. It does not, for example, change when you may activate abilities that can be activated "only as a sorcery." - 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
The last ability cares only about the amount of mana that was actually spent to cast the spell, regardless of its mana cost.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast