Passionate Archaeologist
- Mana cost
- {1}{R}
- Type
- Legendary Enchantment — Background
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate #656 (mythic)
Commander creatures you own have "Whenever you cast a spell from exile, this creature deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to target opponent."
Passionate Archaeologist has 3 printings, first in Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (2022). EDHREC ranks it #1,873 among Commander cards. It appears most in Prosper, Tome-Bound decks (6,455 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 10 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Passionate Archaeologist
- Exit from Exile - Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate, led by Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald
Commanders that run Passionate Archaeologist most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Prosper, Tome-Bound: 6,455 decks
- Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald: 3,694 decks
- Rocco, Street Chef: 3,637 decks
- Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder: 3,208 decks
- Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter: 3,110 decks
- Fire Lord Zuko: 3,085 decks
- Tannuk, Steadfast Second: 3,021 decks
- Gwen Stacy // Ghost-Spider: 2,909 decks
Often played with Passionate Archaeologist
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.
- : If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.
- : An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.
- : If a card refers to a commander creature you own, a Background won't usually be counted or included for that effect. If another spell or ability causes your Background to become a creature, however, it will be included. Any effect that refers to your commander or a commander you own or control without specifying creature will apply to a Background that is your commander, as appropriate.
- : Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won’t have to pay an additional {2} the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined (although your Background won’t usually be a creature anyway).
- : If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders’ combined color identities.
- : Choose a Background is a variant of the partner ability. You may have two commanders if one of them is a legendary creature with the choose a background ability and the other is a legendary Background enchantment. Backgrounds and cards with choose a Background do not interact with cards which have any other partner ability.
- : Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.
- : If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.
- : If you control a Background that grants an ability to commander creatures you own, and you own more than one commander creature, each of them will have that ability.