Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}{U}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Human Advisor
- Power / toughness
- 0 / 4
- Set
- Assassin's Creed #273 (rare)
Defender
Sokrates has hexproof as long as it's untapped.
Sokratic Dialogue — {T}: Until end of turn, target creature gains "If this creature would deal combat damage to a player, prevent that damage. This creature's controller and that player each draw half that many cards, rounded down."
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher has 4 printings, first in Assassin's Creed (2024). EDHREC ranks it #4,619 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ms. Bumbleflower decks (3,376 on EDHREC). It has 1 official ruling.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Sokrates, Athenian Teacher most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ms. Bumbleflower: 3,376 decks
- Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis: 3,298 decks
- Arcades, the Strategist: 3,000 decks
- Kwain, Itinerant Meddler: 1,530 decks
- Pramikon, Sky Rampart: 1,289 decks
- Whtz, the Bibliophile: 1,253 decks
- The Council of Four: 815 decks
- The Archimandrite: 598 decks
Often played with Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If damage dealt by a creature with the ability granted by Sokrates's last ability can't be prevented for some reason, the appropriate players will still draw half that many cards, rounded down. (This won't come up often, but the unexamined ability is not worth activating.)