Card
The Archimandrite
Mana cost {2}{U}{R}{W}
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor 0/5
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4. Whenever you gain life, each Advisor, Artificer, and Monk you control gains vigilance and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained. Tap three untapped Advisors, Artificers, and/or Monks you control: Draw a card.
Part of 4 known combos, 2 of them two-card. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · BRC · #26
- Cheapest printing
- €0.16
- EDHREC salt
- 0.31
- Color identity
- Red, Blue, White
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Beacon of Immortality, Illusions of Grandeur
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Beacon of Immortality, Illusions of Grandeur
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partners: Beacon of Immortality, Illusions of Grandeur
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Beacon of Immortality, Illusions of Grandeur (early with Beacon of Immortality, Illusions of Grandeur)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
4 known combos, 2 of them two-card.
- The Archimandrite + Beacon of Immortality
Produces: Target opponent loses the game
View on Commander Spellbook - The Archimandrite + Illusions of Grandeur
Produces: Target opponent loses the game
View on Commander Spellbook - The Archimandrite + True Conviction + Delusions of Mediocrity
Produces: Target opponent loses the game
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
You can’t gain negative amounts of life. If you have fewer than four cards in hand as the first ability resolves, you won’t gain any life, but you won’t lose any life either. - 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
Since The Archimandrite’s activated ability doesn’t have a tap symbol in its cost, you can tap creatures that haven’t been under your control since your most recent turn began (including The Archimandrite itself) to pay the cost.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast