Card
Battle of Hoover Dam
Mana cost {3}{W}
As this enchantment enters, choose NCR or Legion. • NCR — At the beginning of your end step, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. • Legion — Whenever a creature you control dies, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.
Part of 14 known combos, one of them two-card. 5 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · PIP · #11
- Cheapest printing
- €0.33
- EDHREC salt
- 0.32
- Color identity
- White
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Basking Broodscale
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Basking Broodscale
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partner: Basking Broodscale
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Basking Broodscale (early with Basking Broodscale)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
14 known combos, one of them two-card.
- Basking Broodscale + Battle of Hoover Dam
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Ghave, Guru of Spores + Battle of Hoover Dam + Ashnod's Altar
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Battle of Hoover Dam + Animation Module + Ashnod's Altar
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2024-03-08 · Wizards of the Coast
Finality counters aren’t keyword counters, and a finality counter doesn’t give any abilities to the permanent it’s on. If that permanent loses its abilities and then would go to a graveyard, it will still be exiled instead. - 2024-03-08 · Wizards of the Coast
If you somehow control Battle of Hoover Dam and no choice was made for it (perhaps because another permanent on the battlefield became a copy of it), it has neither of the two triggered abilities. - 2024-03-08 · Wizards of the Coast
Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant. - 2024-03-08 · Wizards of the Coast
Finality counters work on any permanent, not only creatures. If a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead. - 2024-03-08 · Wizards of the Coast
Finality counters don’t stop permanents from going to zones other than the graveyard from the battlefield. For example, if a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into its owner’s hand from the battlefield, it does so normally.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast