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Azlask, the Swelling Scourge
Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
mythic
Whenever Azlask or another colorless creature you control dies, you get an experience counter. : Creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of experience counters you have. Scions and Spawns you control gain indestructible and annihilator 1 until end of turn.
2/2
CardmarketSemantic Tags
A permanent that gives a static power/toughness boost to your creatures.
Benefits from creatures dying — drain effects, death triggers, and sacrifice-for-value payoffs.
Benefits from creatures or permanents dying — death triggers, blood artist effects.
Benefits from creatures or permanents dying — death triggers, blood artist effects.
Rewards controlling, casting, or interacting with enchantments.
Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.
A permanent with a repeatable activated ability that converts excess mana into value.
A card or token on the battlefield. See rule 110, “Permanents.”
A keyword ability that provides a range of benefits against objects with a specific quality. See rule 702.16, “Protection.”
A spell or ability that gives a temporary power/toughness boost.
Rewards casting instants and sorceries. Includes magecraft, prowess triggers, and spell-count payoffs.
Cares about creature types — lords, type-matters effects, and changeling.
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Printings (5)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modern Horizons 3 Commander#17 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Modern Horizons 3 Commander#5 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Modern Horizons 3 Commander#136 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Modern Horizons 3 Commander#25 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Modern Horizons 3 Commander#9 | mythic | · | · | · |
Related Rules
If an ability would produce one or more mana of an undefined type, it produces no mana instead.
Some abilities produce mana based on the type of mana another permanent or permanents “could produce.” The type of mana a permanent could produce at any time includes any type of mana that an ability of that permanent would produce if the ability were to resolve at that time, taking into account any applicable replacement effects in any possible order. Ignore whether any costs of the ability could or could not be paid. If that permanent wouldn’t produce any mana under these conditions, or no type of mana can be defined this way, there’s no type of mana it could produce.
To “tap [a permanent] for mana” is to activate a mana ability of that permanent that includes the {T} symbol in its activation cost. See rule 605, “Mana Abilities.”
An ability that triggers whenever a permanent “is tapped for mana” or is tapped for mana of a specified type triggers whenever such a mana ability resolves and produces mana or the specified type of mana.
A replacement effect that applies if a permanent “is tapped for mana” or tapped for mana of a specific type and/or amount modifies the mana production event while such an ability is resolving and producing mana or the specified type and/or amount of mana.
If an object’s enters-the-battlefield triggered ability or replacement effect refers to X, and the spell that became that object as it resolved had a value of X chosen for any of its costs, the value of X for that ability is the same as the value of X for that spell, although the value of X for that permanent is 0. This is an exception to rule 107.3i.
The tap symbol is {T}. The tap symbol in an activation cost means “Tap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already tapped can’t be tapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the tap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
The untap symbol is {Q}. The untap symbol in an activation cost means “Untap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already untapped can’t be untapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the untap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
Rulings
The value of X is determined only once, as Azlask's last ability resolves.
Annihilator abilities trigger and resolve during the declare attackers step. The defending player sacrifices the required number of permanents of their choice before they declare blockers. Any creatures sacrificed this way won't be able to block.
If a creature with annihilator is attacking a planeswalker, and the defending player chooses to sacrifice that planeswalker, the attacking creature continues to attack. It may be blocked. If it isn't blocked, it simply won't deal combat damage to anything.
All experience counters are identical, no matter how you got them. For example, the last ability will count experience counters that you got from the first ability, from another ability, from proliferating, and so on.