Anax, Hardened in the Forge
- Mana cost
- {1}{R}{R}
- Type
- Legendary Enchantment Creature — Demigod
- Power / toughness
- * / 3
- Set
- Magic Online Promos #79863 (uncommon)
Anax's power is equal to your devotion to red. (Each {R} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to red.)
Whenever Anax or another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 red Satyr creature token with "This token can't block." If the creature had power 4 or greater, create two of those tokens instead.
Anax, Hardened in the Forge has 6 printings, first in The List (2020). EDHREC ranks it #7,166 among Commander cards. It appears most in Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno decks (1,775 on EDHREC). It has 9 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Anax, Hardened in the Forge most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno: 1,775 decks
- Gallia of the Endless Dance: 1,240 decks
- Juri, Master of the Revue: 761 decks
- Lucius the Eternal: 474 decks
- Squee, the Immortal: 401 decks
- Garna, Bloodfist of Keld: 396 decks
- Gimli, Mournful Avenger: 259 decks
- Sabin, Master Monk: 201 decks
Often played with Anax, Hardened in the Forge
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If you put an Aura on an opponent's permanent, you still control the Aura, and mana symbols in its mana cost count towards your devotion.
- : If you create a token that's a copy of Anax, its last ability triggers when it dies.
- : If Anax dies at the same time as another nontoken creature you control, its ability triggers for each of them.
- : Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
- : The ability that defines Anax's power works in all zones, not just the battlefield.
- : If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it's still on the battlefield at that time.
- : Colorless and generic mana symbols ({C}, {0}, {1}, {2}, {X}, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
- : To determine whether you create two tokens, check the power of the creature that died immediately before it died.
- : Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).