Card

Anax, Hardened in the Forge

Mana cost {1}{R}{R}

Legendary Enchantment Creature — Demigod */3

Anax's power is equal to your devotion to red. (Each {R} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to red.) Whenever Anax or another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 red Satyr creature token with "This token can't block." If the creature had power 4 or greater, create two of those tokens instead.

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 111 known combos. 9 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Uncommon · THB · #125
Cheapest printing
€0.03
EDHREC salt
—
Color identity
Red

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

111 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you put an Aura on an opponent's permanent, you still control the Aura, and mana symbols in its mana cost count towards your devotion.
  • 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you create a token that's a copy of Anax, its last ability triggers when it dies.
  • 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
    If Anax dies at the same time as another nontoken creature you control, its ability triggers for each of them.
  • 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
    Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
  • 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
    The ability that defines Anax's power works in all zones, not just the battlefield.
  • 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
    If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it's still on the battlefield at that time.
  • 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
    Colorless and generic mana symbols ({C}, {0}, {1}, {2}, {X}, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
  • 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
    To determine whether you create two tokens, check the power of the creature that died immediately before it died.
  • 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
    Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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