Varchild's War-Riders
- Mana cost
- {1}{R}
- Type
- Creature — Human Warrior
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 4
- Set
- Alliances #83 (rare)
- Price
- $5.41 USD
Cumulative upkeep—Have an opponent create a 1/1 red Survivor creature token. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Trample; rampage 1 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)
Varchild's War-Riders has 2 printings, first in Alliances (1996). EDHREC ranks it #13,556 among Commander cards. It appears most in Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor decks (838 on EDHREC). It has 3 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 Varchild's War-Riders most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor: 838 decks
- Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot: 659 decks
- General Marhault Elsdragon: 445 decks
- Toralf, God of Fury // Toralf's Hammer: 296 decks
- Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs: 97 decks
- Fumiko the Lowblood: 79 decks
- Brothers Yamazaki: 72 decks
- Gahiji, Honored One: 67 decks
Often played with Varchild's War-Riders
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : In a multiplayer game, you can put the Survivor tokens onto the battlefield under the control of different players.
- : The rampage bonus is calculated only once per combat, when the triggered ability resolves. Adding or removing blockers later in combat won't change the bonus.
- : Paying cumulative upkeep is always optional. If it's not paid, the permanent with cumulative upkeep is sacrificed. Partial payments of the total cumulative upkeep cost can't be made. For example, if a permanent with "cumulative upkeep {1}" has three age counters on it when its cumulative upkeep ability triggers, it gets another age counter and then its controller chooses to either pay {4} or sacrifice the permanent.