Xantcha, Sleeper Agent
Legendary Creature - Minion
Power/Toughness:
5/5Artist:
Mark WintersShare:
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As Xantcha, Sleeper Agent enters the battlefield, an opponent of your choice gains control of it.Xantcha attacks each combat if able and can't attack its owner or planeswalkers its owner controls.: Xantcha's controller loses 2 life and you draw a card. Any player may activate this ability.
Rulings:
- 7/13/2018 Xantcha’s first ability is a replacement effect that modifies how it enters the battlefield, not a triggered ability. Players can’t take actions (such as activating its last ability) while Xantcha’s on the battlefield before it’s controlled by another player.
- 7/13/2018 If Xantcha can’t attack for any reason (such as being tapped or having come under that player’s control that turn), then it doesn’t attack. If there’s a cost associated with having it attack, the player isn’t forced to pay that cost, so it doesn’t have to attack in that case either.
- 7/13/2018 The player who draws a card when Xantcha’s last ability resolves is the player who activated the ability.
- 7/13/2018 Xantcha’s controller may activate its last ability. In this case, the same player loses 2 life and draws a card.
- 7/13/2018 If a player creates a token that’s a copy of Xantcha, the player who creates the token is its owner, not the player under whose control it enters the battlefield. This is a change from previous rules.
- 8/23/2019 In a multiplayer game, if Xantcha’s owner leaves the game, Xantcha leaves the game with them. If Xantcha’s controller leaves the game, Xantcha is exiled. This is a change from previous rulings due to Xantcha’s updated wording.
Legality:
- standard: Not legal
- future: Not legal
- frontier: Not legal
- modern: Not legal
- legacy: Legal
- pauper: Not legal
- vintage: Legal
- penny: Not legal
- commander: Legal
- 1v1: Not legal
- duel: Legal
- brawl: Not legal
- oldschool: Not legal
- historic: Not legal
- pioneer: Not legal
- gladiator: Not legal
- premodern: Not legal
- historicbrawl: Not legal
- paupercommander: Not legal
- alchemy: Not legal
- explorer: Not legal
- predh: Not legal
- oathbreaker: Legal
- timeless: Not legal
- standardbrawl: Not legal
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