Card
Sharkey, Tyrant of the Shire
Mana cost {2}{U}{B}
Legendary Creature — Avatar Rogue 2/4
Activated abilities of lands your opponents control can't be activated unless they're mana abilities. Sharkey has all activated abilities of lands your opponents control except mana abilities. Mana of any type can be spent to activate Sharkey's abilities.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · LTR · #229
- Cheapest printing
- €0.22
- EDHREC salt
- 0.38
- Color identity
- Black, 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
- 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
Sharkey, Tyrant of the Shire's last ability uses a new template indicating that you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to activate Sharkey, Tyrant of the Shire's abilities. The six types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless. - 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
Sharkey, Tyrant of the Shire gains only activated abilities, excluding activated mana abilities. It doesn't gain keyword abilities (unless those keyword abilities are activated), triggered abilities, or static abilities. - 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
If an activated ability of a land an opponent controls references the card it's printed on by name, treat Sharkey, Tyrant of the Shire's version of that ability as though it referenced Sharkey, Tyrant of the Shire by name instead. - 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
Snow mana is not a type of mana. Sharkey, Tyrant of the Shire's last ability won't let you pay a snow cost using mana produced by a nonsnow source. - 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
An activated mana ability is one that produces mana as it resolves, not one that costs mana to activate. - 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keywords are activated abilities; they have colons in their reminder text.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast