Sage of Hours
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Human Wizard
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 1
- Set
- Journey into Nyx #50 (mythic)
- Price
- $11.60 USD
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Remove all +1/+1 counters from this creature: For each five counters removed this way, take an extra turn after this one.
Sage of Hours has 2 printings, first in Journey into Nyx (2014). EDHREC ranks it #7,796 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ezuri, Claw of Progress decks (3,394 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Sage of Hours most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ezuri, Claw of Progress: 3,394 decks
- Yuna, Grand Summoner: 1,722 decks
- Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief: 709 decks
- Zimone, Paradox Sculptor: 538 decks
- Experiment Kraj: 473 decks
- Lonis, Genetics Expert: 427 decks
- Mairsil, the Pretender: 285 decks
- Piper Wright, Publick Reporter: 83 decks
Often played with Sage of Hours
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Heroic abilities won't trigger when a copy of a spell is created on the stack or when a spell's targets are changed to include a creature with a heroic ability.
- : Heroic abilities will resolve before the spell that caused them to trigger.
- : You must remove all +1/+1 counters from Sage of Hours to activate its ability, even if the number of counters isn't a multiple of five. For example, if you remove twelve counters to activate the ability, you'll take two extra turns. If you remove three counters, you won't take any extra turns.
- : Heroic abilities will trigger only once per spell, even if that spell targets the creature with the heroic ability multiple times.