Card
Ruxa, Patient Professor
Mana cost {2}{G}{G}
Legendary Creature — Bear Druid 4/4
Whenever Ruxa enters or attacks, return target creature card with no abilities from your graveyard to your hand. Creatures you control with no abilities get +1/+1. For each creature you control with no abilities, you may have that creature assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 5 known combos. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · C21 · #66
- Cheapest printing
- €6.29
- EDHREC salt
- 0.29
- Color identity
- Green
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
5 known combos.
- Ruxa, Patient Professor + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar + Memnite
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Ruxa, Patient Professor + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar + Phyrexian Walker
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Ruxa, Patient Professor + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar + Kobolds of Kher Keep
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
Auras and Equipment that grant abilities will use the words "gains" or "has," and they'll list a keyword ability or an ability in quotation marks. A creature with no abilities affected by such an Aura or Equipment would no longer get the +1/+1 bonus or be able to assign combat damage as though it weren't blocked. If the Aura or Equipment does not give the creature any abilities, the creature will continue to benefit from Ruxa's last two abilities. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
Notably, neither of Ruxa's last two abilities give any creatures an ability. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
For each attacking creature you control with no abilities, you decide whether it will assign combat damage to the blocking creatures or if it will assign combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking. You can't split damage assignment between them. You make this decision individually for each qualifying creature just before it deals combat damage. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
A creature or creature card with no abilities is one with no rules text at all. This includes true vanilla creatures (including Grizzly Bears, Runeclaw Bear, Bear Cub, and other adorable bear students), face-down creatures, many tokens, and creatures that have lost their abilities. Abilities that function only in zones other than the battlefield count. For example, a creature with cycling {2} is not a creature with no abilities.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast