Card
Bess, Soul Nourisher
Mana cost {1}{G}{W}
Legendary Creature — Human Citizen 1/1
Whenever one or more other creatures you control with base power and toughness 1/1 enter, put a +1/+1 counter on Bess. Whenever Bess attacks, each other creature you control with base power and toughness 1/1 gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Bess.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 3 known combos. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · NCC · #67
- Cheapest printing
- €0.43
- EDHREC salt
- 0.23
- Color identity
- Green, White
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
3 known combos.
- Bess, Soul Nourisher + Animation Module + Ashnod's Altar
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature tokens
View on Commander Spellbook - Bess, Soul Nourisher + Animation Module + Phyrexian Altar
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Bess, Soul Nourisher + Animation Module + Krark-Clan Ironworks
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature tokens
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
Normally, a creature's base power and toughness are the power and toughness printed on the card or, for a token, the power and toughness set by the effect that created it. If another effect sets a creature's power and toughness to specific numbers or values, those become its base power and toughness. If an effect modifies a creature's power and/or toughness without setting them, that is not included when determining its base power and toughness. - 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
Some creatures have base power and toughness 0/0 and an ability that gives them a bonus based on some criteria. Those are not characteristic-defining abilities, and that ability doesn't change its base power and toughness. - 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
If a creature has a characteristic-defining ability that sets its power and toughness, indicated with a */* or similar in the power and toughness box, that ability is taken into account when determining its base power and toughness.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast