Card

Falco Spara, Pactweaver

Mana cost {1}{G}{W}{U}

Legendary Creature — Bird Demon 3/3

Flying, trample Falco Spara enters with a shield counter on it. You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast spells from the top of your library by removing a counter from a creature you control in addition to paying their other costs.

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 1,132 known combos. 8 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Mythic · SNC · #186
Cheapest printing
€2.18
EDHREC salt
0.05
Color identity
Green, Blue, White
Keywords
Flying, Trample

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

1,132 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    "Shield" is not an ability that creatures have and shield counters are not keyword counters. If a creature with a shield counter loses its abilities, the shield counter will still protect it as normal.
  • 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    Removing a counter from a creature is an additional cost of casting the spell and may be combined with other additional costs or alternative costs that spell may have, such as casualty.
  • 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    If a permanent that would be dealt damage has more than one shield counter on it, that damage is prevented and only one shield counter is removed.
  • 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    Shield counters don't prevent players from sacrificing creatures.
  • 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you cast a spell with casualty this way, you can pay the costs in any order, which means that you may remove a counter from a creature then sacrifice it to pay the casualty cost. Bear in mind that removing a +1/+1 counter this way will reduce a creature's power, which might prevent you from paying the casualty cost with that creature.
  • 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    A creature with a shield counter on it may still be destroyed by state-based actions if it has damage marked on it equal to its toughness or has been dealt unpreventable damage by a source with deathtouch.
  • 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    Removing a shield counter in this way isn't the same as regenerating a creature.
  • 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    If a permanent with a shield counter is dealt unpreventable damage, that damage will be dealt and a shield counter will still be removed.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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