Card
Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen
Mana cost {1}{B}{B} //
Legendary Creature — Elf Noble // Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Elf Noble
{T}, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Ayara deals X damage to target opponent or battle and you gain X life, where X is the sacrificed permanent's mana value. {5}{R/P}: Transform Ayara. Activate only as a sorcery. ({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.) // At the beginning of combat on your turn, return up to one target artifact or creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 35 known combos. 1 official ruling.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · MOM · #90
- Cheapest printing
- €0.24
- EDHREC salt
- 0.05
- Color identity
- Black, Red
- Keywords
- Transform
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
35 known combos.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2023-04-14 · Wizards of the Coast
The first activated ability of Ayara, Widow of the Realm uses the mana value of the permanent you sacrificed as it last existed on the battlefield, not its mana value in the graveyard.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast