Card
Anafenza, the Foremost
Mana cost {W}{B}{G}
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier 4/4
Whenever Anafenza attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on another target tapped creature you control. If a nontoken creature an opponent owns would die or a creature card not on the battlefield would be put into an opponent's graveyard, exile that card instead.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 1 known combo. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · KTK · #163
- Cheapest printing
- €0.37
- EDHREC salt
- 0.31
- Color identity
- Black, 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
1 known combo.
- Anafenza, the Foremost + Void Attendant + Pitiless Plunderer
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2014-09-20 · Wizards of the Coast
Anafenza's last ability cares only what the card would be in the zone it's moving from, not what it would be in the graveyard. For example, if a land card you control becomes a creature due to an effect and then dies, the land card will be exiled. But if a creature card with bestow is an Aura when it would be put into the graveyard, it ends up in the graveyard. - 2014-09-20 · Wizards of the Coast
Anafenza's first ability can target any tapped creature you control. That creature doesn't necessarily have to be attacking. - 2014-09-20 · Wizards of the Coast
If your opponent discards a creature card while Anafenza is on the battlefield, abilities that function when a card is discarded (such as madness) still work, even though that card never reaches a graveyard. In addition, spells or abilities that check the characteristics of a discarded card (such as Chandra Ablaze's first ability) can find that card in exile. - 2014-09-20 · Wizards of the Coast
While Anafenza is on the battlefield, abilities that trigger whenever a nontoken creature your opponent owns dies won't trigger, as that card will never reach that player's graveyard. (Token creatures will still go to the graveyard briefly before ceasing to exist.)
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast