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Elesh Norn
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you or a permanent you control, that source's controller loses 2 life unless they pay .
, Sacrifice three other creatures: Exile Elesh Norn, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.
Back face The Argent Etchings
Enchantment — Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Incubate 2 five times, then transform all Incubator tokens you control.
II — Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain double strike until end of turn.
III — Destroy all other permanents except for artifacts, lands, and Phyrexians. Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).
Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve
#4,191 most played card in Commander (EDHREC)
Legalities
- Not legalStandard
- Not legalAlchemy
- LegalPioneer
- LegalHistoric
- LegalModern
- LegalBrawl
- LegalLegacy
- LegalTimeless
- LegalVintage
- Not legalPauper
- LegalCommander
- LegalPenny
- LegalOathbreaker
Keywords 7
Attacking doesn’t tap it.
You put a permanent you control into the graveyard yourself (≠ destroy: indestructible / hexproof usually don’t stop it).
A zone outside the game: not the graveyard; many « from graveyard » effects won’t see it.
Cast only on your turn, main phase, empty stack (unless an effect says otherwise).
It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.
Via « destroy » or lethal damage (unless indestructible, etc.).
A chaptered enchantment: it gets a lore counter as it enters and after each of your draw steps, triggering I → II → III, then is sacrificed.
