Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}{B}
- Type
- Legendary Planeswalker — Ashiok
- Loyalty
- 5
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine Promos #78s (mythic)
If you would pay life while your library has at least that many cards in it, exile that many cards from the top of your library instead.
+1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Exile one of them and put the other into your hand.
−2: Create two 1/1 black Nightmare creature tokens with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, if a card was put into exile this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this token."
−7: Target player exiles the top X cards of their library, where X is the total mana value of cards you own in exile.
Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator has 4 printings, first in Wilds of Eldraine (2023). EDHREC ranks it #14,544 among Commander cards. It appears most in Umbris, Fear Manifest decks (1,184 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Umbris, Fear Manifest: 1,184 decks
- Valgavoth, Terror Eater: 189 decks
- Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion: 98 decks
- Tomik, Wielder of Law: 84 decks
- Lorcan, Warlock Collector: 21 decks
- Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools: 7 decks
- Kuro, Pitlord: 6 decks
- Oroku Saki, Shredder Rising: 1 decks
Often played with Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Ashiok, Wicked Nightmare's first ability isn't optional. You can't choose to pay life instead of exiling cards from the top of your library while you control Ashiok, and you can't split the payment between life and cards.
- : If you would pay life while you control Ashiok and your library does not have at least that many cards in it, you'll just pay life as normal.
- : Ashiok's first ability doesn't allow you to attempt to pay an amount of life greater than your current life total.