Ali from Cairo
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}{R}
- Type
- Creature — Human
- Power / toughness
- 0 / 1
- Set
- Arabian Nights #36 (rare)
- Price
- $401.04 USD
Damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.
Ali from Cairo has 2 printings, first in Arabian Nights (1993). EDHREC ranks it #25,854 among Commander cards. It appears most in Jack of Hearts, Volatile Hero decks (1 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 Ali from Cairo most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Jack of Hearts, Volatile Hero: 1 decks
Often played with Ali from Cairo
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : This effect does not apply to effects which reduce your life without doing damage.
- : This effect does not prevent damage, it prevents the damage from turning into loss of life. So the full damage is dealt (and abilities that trigger on damage being dealt still trigger), but the full loss of life is not applied.
- : The ability works up until Ali enters the graveyard, so if he takes lethal damage or is destroyed at the same time you take damage, the ability helps you. If the damage occurs after it goes to the graveyard, however, it is not affected by the Ali which is no longer on the battlefield.