Pharika, God of Affliction

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

1 known combo.

• Pharika, God of Affliction + Eternal Scourge + Ashnod's Altar + Pitiless Plunderer
  Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite colorless mana
  View on Commander Spellbook

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

• 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
  When a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color (including the mana symbols in the mana cost of the God itself) will determine if a creature entered the battlefield or not for abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield.
• 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
  If an effect causes a God to lose all abilities, its ability that causes it to stop being a creature still applies if appropriate.
• 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
  As a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color will determine whether any replacement effects that affect creatures entering the battlefield apply to that God. Because replacement effects are considered before the God is on the battlefield, the mana symbols in its mana cost won't be counted when determining this.
• 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
  The abilities of Gods function as long as they're on the battlefield, regardless of whether they're creatures.
• 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
  If a God stops being a creature, it loses the type creature and the creature type God. It continues to be a legendary enchantment.
• 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
  The type-changing ability that can make a God not be a creature functions only on the battlefield. It's always a creature card in other zones, regardless of your devotion to its color. It's always a creature spell while it's on the stack.
• 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
  Your devotion to two colors is the number of mana symbols among mana costs of permanents you control that are the first color, the second, or both. If an effect counts your devotion to two colors, a hybrid symbol that is both of those colors is counted just once.
• 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
  If a God is attacking or blocking and it stops being a creature, it will be removed from combat. It won't rejoin combat if it resumes being a creature later during that combat.
• 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
  Counters put on a God remain on it while it's not a creature, even if they have no effect.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast