Summon: Shiva
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}{U}
- Type
- Enchantment Creature — Saga Elemental
- Power / toughness
- 4 / 5
- Set
- Final Fantasy #362 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.72 USD
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Heavenly Strike — Tap target creature an opponent controls. Put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
III — Diamond Dust — Draw a card for each tapped creature your opponents control.
Summon: Shiva has 2 printings, first in Final Fantasy (2025). EDHREC ranks it #4,855 among Commander cards. It appears most in Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra decks (10,585 on EDHREC). It has 9 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Summon: Shiva most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra: 10,585 decks
- Tom Bombadil: 3,916 decks
- Yuna, Grand Summoner: 2,276 decks
- Hylda of the Icy Crown: 2,158 decks
- Sensational Spider-Man: 1,109 decks
- Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice: 644 decks
- Lulu, Stern Guardian: 628 decks
- Y'shtola Rhul: 302 decks
Often played with Summon: Shiva
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Once the number of lore counters on a Saga is greater than or equal to the greatest number among its chapter abilities, the Saga's controller sacrifices it as soon as its chapter ability has left the stack, most likely by resolving or being countered. This state-based action doesn't use the stack.
- : Each symbol on the left of a Saga's text box represents a chapter ability. A chapter ability is a triggered ability that triggers when a lore counter that is put on the Saga causes the number of lore counters on the Saga to become equal to or greater than the ability's chapter number. Chapter abilities are put onto the stack and may be responded to.
- : A chapter ability doesn't trigger if a lore counter is put on a Saga that already had a number of lore counters greater than or equal to that chapter's number. For example, the third lore counter put on a Saga causes the chapter III ability to trigger, but chapters I and II won't trigger again.
- : Once a chapter ability has triggered, the ability on the stack won't be affected if the Saga gains or loses counters, or if it leaves the battlefield.
- : Due to a rules change that takes effect with this release (see below for details), a Saga that somehow loses all of its chapter abilities will not be sacrificed as a state-based action. It will also not gain a lore counter at the beginning of each of its controller's first main phases.
- : If multiple chapter abilities trigger at the same time, their controller puts them on the stack in any order. If any of them require targets, those targets are chosen as you put the abilities on the stack, before any of those abilities resolve.
- : As a Saga enters, its controller puts a lore counter on it. As your first main phase begins (immediately after your draw step), you put another lore counter on each Saga you control. Putting a lore counter on a Saga in either of these ways doesn't use the stack.
- : Saga creatures have two sections to their text boxes. The first section, above the type line, contains their chapter abilities, and the second section, below the type line, contains any other abilities (or italicized flavor text). Any abilities in the latter section aren't chapter abilities and apply no matter how many lore counters are on the creature.
- : Removing lore counters won't cause a previous chapter ability to trigger. If lore counters are removed from a Saga, the appropriate chapter abilities will trigger again when the Saga receives more lore counters.