Carth the Lion
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}{G}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 5
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2 #464 (rare)
- Price
- $0.52 USD
Whenever Carth enters or a planeswalker you control dies, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal a planeswalker card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Planeswalkers' loyalty abilities you activate cost an additional [+1] to activate.
Carth the Lion has 5 printings, first in Modern Horizons 2 (2021). EDHREC ranks it #5,939 among Commander cards. It appears most in Atraxa, Praetors' Voice decks (6,457 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Carth the Lion most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Atraxa, Praetors' Voice: 6,457 decks
- Tam, the Possibility: 5,098 decks
- Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge: 3,870 decks
- Xavier Sal, Infested Captain: 1,255 decks
- Jared Carthalion: 762 decks
- Arzakon: 460 decks
- Kethis, the Hidden Hand: 299 decks
- Storrev, Devkarin Lich: 42 decks
Often played with Carth the Lion
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The total cost of a planeswalker's loyalty ability is calculated before any counters are added or removed. If a loyalty ability normally costs [-3] to activate, you do not remove three counters from it and then put one counter on it. You remove two counters at one time when you pay the cost.
- : If you somehow manage to control two Carths (perhaps because of Spark Double), the cost-changing effect is cumulative. In total, loyalty abilities will cost an additional [+2] to activate.
- : If an effect replaces the number of counters that would be placed on a planeswalker, such as that of Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider, that replacement happens only once, at the time payment is made.
- : If a planeswalker's loyalty ability normally has a cost of [+1], Carth's ability makes it cost [+2] instead. A cost of [0] would become [+1], and a cost of [-6] would become [-5].