Card

Bifur, Melodic Rider

Mana cost {4}{R/W}{R/W}

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Bard 4/5

Storied (If you control three or more artifacts, legendaries, and/or Sagas, you have an enduring story for the rest of the game.) Whenever Bifur enters or attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. As long as you have an enduring story, if an ability of a Dwarf you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 15 known combos. 11 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Uncommon · HOB · #147
Cheapest printing
€0.07
EDHREC salt
—
Color identity
Red, 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

15 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2026-06-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    Storied isn't a triggered ability and doesn't use the stack. Players can respond to a spell that will give you your third legendary, Saga, and/or artifact permanent, but they can't respond to you getting an enduring story once you control that third permanent.
  • 2026-06-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    Once you have an enduring story, you have it for the rest of the game, even if you lose control of some or all of your storied permanents. The enduring story designation is on the player and can't be removed by any effect.
  • 2026-06-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you control three legendary, Saga, and/or artifact permanents but don't control a permanent with storied, you don't get an enduring story. For example, if you controlled three artifacts, lost control of two, then cast Thorin Oakenshield, you won't have an enduring story.
  • 2026-06-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    If your third legendary, Saga, or artifact permanent enters the battlefield and then one of those permanents leaves the battlefield immediately afterwards (most likely due to the "legend rule" or due to being a creature with 0 toughness), you get an enduring story before it leaves the battlefield.
  • 2026-06-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    A permanent is any object on the battlefield, including tokens and lands. Spells and emblems aren't permanents.
  • 2026-06-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    A single permanent can only count once toward the three legendary, Saga, and/or artifact permanents needed to get an enduring story, even if it has more than one of those qualities. If you control one permanent that is a legendary artifact and a second permanent that is a Saga, you will only have two of the three permanents required to get an enduring story.
  • 2026-06-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    Bifur's last ability doesn't copy the triggered ability; it just causes the ability to trigger an additional time. Any choices made as you put the ability onto the stack, such as modes and targets, are made separately for each instance of the ability. Any choices made on resolution, such as whether to put counters on a permanent, are also made individually.
  • 2026-06-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    Triggered abilities use the word "when," "whenever," or "at." They're often written as "[Trigger condition], [effect]." Some keyword abilities are triggered abilities and will have "when," "whenever," or "at" in their reminder text.
  • 2026-06-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    In some cases involving linked abilities, an ability requires information about "the exiled card." When this happens, the ability gets multiple answers. If these answers are being used to determine the value of a variable, the sum is used.
  • 2026-06-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    If a triggered ability is linked to a second ability, additional instances of that triggered ability are also linked to that second ability. If the second ability refers to "the exiled card," it refers to all cards exiled by instances of the triggered ability.
  • 2026-06-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    If Bifur entering causes you to have an enduring story, his "enters or attacks" ability triggers an additional time.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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