Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
- Mana cost
- {2}{G}{U}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Kraken
- Power / toughness
- 12 / 12
- Set
- Double Masters #189 (rare)
- Price
- $2.00 USD
Arixmethes enters tapped with five slumber counters on it.
As long as Arixmethes has a slumber counter on it, it's a land. (It's not a creature.)
Whenever you cast a spell, you may remove a slumber counter from Arixmethes.
{T}: Add {G}{U}.
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle has 8 printings, first in Commander 2018 (2018). EDHREC ranks it #2,060 among Commander cards. It appears most in Eshki, Temur's Roar decks (9,320 on EDHREC). 2 public decks on TCG run it. It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
- Adaptive Enchantment - Commander 2018, led by Estrid, the Masked
- Jump Scare! - Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander, led by Zimone, Mystery Unraveler
Commanders that run Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Eshki, Temur's Roar: 9,320 decks
- Zimone, Mystery Unraveler: 8,827 decks
- Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep: 7,036 decks
- Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait: 6,307 decks
- Kenessos, Priest of Thassa: 4,996 decks
- Koma, Cosmos Serpent: 3,428 decks
- Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood: 1,932 decks
- Koma, World-Eater: 1,726 decks
Often played with Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Arixmethes can tap for mana the turn it enters the battlefield as long as it has slumber counters on it. If you can figure out how to untap it, that is.
- : Arixmethes isn't a land until after it has entered the battlefield. Effects such as that of Blood Moon won't affect its enters-the-battlefield ability. Similarly, replacement effects that modify how creatures you control enter the battlefield will see Arixmethes entering as a creature rather than a land. However, triggered abilities (such as landfall abilities) will see that a land has entered the battlefield and not a creature.
- : Arixmethes can't be played as a land.
- : While Arixmethes is a land, it's still green and blue, it's still legendary, and its mana value is still 4.
- : Once Arixmethes is a creature again, it can attack on the same turn as long as you've controlled it since your most recent turn began.
- : Arixmethes's effect causing it to be a land overwrites any earlier effects that gave it additional types. For example, a Phyrexian Metamorph that copies Arixmethes will be a land, not an artifact land, until its slumber counters are removed.
- : Arixmethes's triggered ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger, but after targets have been chosen for that spell. It resolves even if that spell is countered.