Basilica Guards
- Mana cost
- {2}{W}
- Type
- Creature — Human Soldier
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 4
- Set
- Gatecrash #5 (common)
- Price
- $0.19 USD
Defender
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Basilica Guards has 2 printings, first in Gatecrash (2013). EDHREC ranks it #15,754 among Commander cards. It appears most in The Kingpin of Crime decks (151 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Basilica Guards most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- The Kingpin of Crime: 151 decks
- Obzedat, Ghost Council: 114 decks
- Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit: 5 decks
- Regna, the Redeemer: 5 decks
- April O'Neil, Kunoichi Trainee: 3 decks
- Pipsqueak, Rebel Strongarm: 1 decks
- Everett K. Ross, Hapless Attaché: 1 decks
Often played with Basilica Guards
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The extort ability doesn't target any player.
- : The extort ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. The ability resolves even if that spell is countered.
- : The amount of life you gain from extort is based on the total amount of life lost, not necessarily the number of opponents you have. For example, if your opponent's life total can't change (perhaps because that player controls Platinum Emperion), you won't gain any life.
- : You may pay {W/B} a maximum of one time for each extort triggered ability. You decide whether to pay when the ability resolves.