Spiny Starfish
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Starfish
- Power / toughness
- 0 / 1
- Set
- Alliances #35 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.25 USD
{U}: Regenerate this creature.
At the beginning of each end step, if this creature regenerated this turn, create a 0/1 blue Starfish creature token for each time it regenerated this turn.
Spiny Starfish has 2 printings, first in Alliances (1996). EDHREC ranks it #18,434 among Commander cards. It appears most in Homer, the Hermit decks (1,985 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Spiny Starfish most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Homer, the Hermit: 1,985 decks
- Hunding Gjornersen: 2 decks
Often played with Spiny Starfish
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The second ability doesn’t care where the regeneration shields Spiny Starfish used that turn came from. If it regenerated due to a regeneration shield from Refresh, for example, the ability will still put a Starfish token onto the battlefield.
- : Spiny Starfish’s first ability creates a regeneration shield for it. Spiny Starfish’s second ability checks whether it _used_ any regeneration shields that turn, not whether any regeneration shields were created for it.
- : The second ability has an “intervening ‘if’ clause,” so it won’t trigger at all unless Spiny Starfish had regenerated that turn. However, the number of tokens that are created isn’t determined until the ability resolves (in case it regenerates again before that time).
- : If Spiny Starfish regenerates during the end step after its second ability has resolved, no tokens will be created as a result.