Birthing Pod
- Mana cost
- {3}{G/P}
- Type
- Artifact
- Set
- Judge Gift Cards 2020 #7 (rare)
({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.)
{1}{G/P}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.
Birthing Pod has 4 printings, first in New Phyrexia (2011). EDHREC ranks it #2,077 among Commander cards. It appears most in Meren of Clan Nel Toth decks (6,713 on EDHREC). It has 8 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: banned
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Birthing Pod most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Meren of Clan Nel Toth: 6,713 decks
- Henzie "Toolbox" Torre: 6,711 decks
- Derevi, Empyrial Tactician: 3,474 decks
- Brenard, Ginger Sculptor: 2,765 decks
- Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer: 2,366 decks
- Tasigur, the Golden Fang: 2,245 decks
- Ashling, the Limitless: 1,796 decks
- Muldrotha, the Gravetide: 1,549 decks
Often played with Birthing Pod
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X.
- : A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid.
- : To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.
- : If a creature is copying something else, its mana value is the mana value of whatever it's copying.
- : A token has a mana value of 0, unless it is copying something else.
- : Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.
- : If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.
- : A creature's mana value is determined solely by the mana symbols printed in its upper right corner (unless that creature is copying something else; see below). If its mana cost includes {X}, X is considered to be 0. If it has no mana symbols in its upper right corner (because it's an animated land, for example), its mana value is 0. Ignore any alternative costs or additional costs (such as kicker) paid when the creature was cast.