Basilica Shepherd
- Mana cost
- {3}{W}{W}
- Type
- Creature — Phyrexian Angel
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 3
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One #4 (common)
- Price
- $0.17 USD
Flying
When this creature enters, create two 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature tokens with toxic 1 and "This token can't block." (Players dealt combat damage by them also get a poison counter.)
Basilica Shepherd has 1 printing, first in Phyrexia: All Will Be One (2023). EDHREC ranks it #10,730 among Commander cards. It appears most in Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings decks (1,916 on EDHREC). It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Basilica Shepherd most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings: 1,916 decks
- Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines: 1,297 decks
- Vishgraz, the Doomhive: 1,015 decks
- Ria Ivor, Bane of Bladehold: 565 decks
- Mondrak, Glory Dominus: 362 decks
- Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite: 348 decks
- Starling, Aerial Ally: 9 decks
- Landroval, Horizon Witness: 6 decks
Often played with Basilica Shepherd
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Multiple instances of toxic are cumulative. For example, if a creature has toxic 2 and gains toxic 1 due to another effect, combat damage that creature deals to a player will cause that player to get 3 poison counters.
- : If a creature with toxic deals combat damage to a creature or planeswalker, or if it deals noncombat damage, toxic has no effect and no player gets poison counters.
- : Damage dealt by a creature with toxic grants the same number of counters regardless of how much damage is dealt. Notably, if a replacement effect modifies the damage in some way (such as that of Gratuitous Violence), the number of counters given remains unchanged.
- : Toxic doesn't change the amount of combat damage a creature deals. For example, if a 2/2 creature with toxic 1 deals combat damage to a player, that creature will deal 2 damage. The results of that damage are the player loses 2 life and gets a poison counter.
- : A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game. This is a state-based action and doesn't use the stack. In other words, it happens immediately and players can't respond to it, just like a player losing the game due to having 0 or less life.
- : Conversely, replacement effects that apply to the number of counters put on a player can modify the counters placed this way. For example, Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider's last two abilities can apply to counters placed this way.
- : Any other effects of that damage, such as life gain from lifelink, still apply.