Card

Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Mana cost {2}{G}{U}

Legendary Creature — Kraken 12/12

Arixmethes enters tapped with five slumber counters on it. As long as Arixmethes has a slumber counter on it, it's a land. (It's not a creature.) Whenever you cast a spell, you may remove a slumber counter from Arixmethes. {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Part of 52 known combos, 2 of them two-card. 7 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · C18 · #38
Cheapest printing
€0.70
EDHREC salt
0.32
Color identity
Green, Blue

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

Why

  • Two-card combo with Freed from the Real, Pemmin's Aura (early with Freed from the Real, Pemmin's Aura)

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

52 known combos, 2 of them two-card.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2020-08-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    Arixmethes can tap for mana the turn it enters the battlefield as long as it has slumber counters on it. If you can figure out how to untap it, that is.
  • 2020-08-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    Arixmethes isn't a land until after it has entered the battlefield. Effects such as that of Blood Moon won't affect its enters-the-battlefield ability. Similarly, replacement effects that modify how creatures you control enter the battlefield will see Arixmethes entering as a creature rather than a land. However, triggered abilities (such as landfall abilities) will see that a land has entered the battlefield and not a creature.
  • 2020-08-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    Arixmethes can't be played as a land.
  • 2020-08-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    While Arixmethes is a land, it's still green and blue, it's still legendary, and its mana value is still 4.
  • 2020-08-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    Once Arixmethes is a creature again, it can attack on the same turn as long as you've controlled it since your most recent turn began.
  • 2020-08-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    Arixmethes's effect causing it to be a land overwrites any earlier effects that gave it additional types. For example, a Phyrexian Metamorph that copies Arixmethes will be a land, not an artifact land, until its slumber counters are removed.
  • 2020-08-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    Arixmethes's triggered ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger, but after targets have been chosen for that spell. It resolves even if that spell is countered.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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