Craig Boone, Novac Guard card art

Craig Boone, Novac Guard

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

Reach, lifelink

One for My Baby — Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, put two quest counters on Craig Boone. When you do, Craig Boone deals damage equal to the number of quest counters on it to up to one target creature unless that creature's controller has Craig Boone deal that much damage to them.

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-03-08

    If Craig Boone is no longer on the battlefield when the reflexive triggered ability resolves, use the number of quest counters that were on it when it was last on the battlefield to determine how much damage it deals.

  • 2024-03-08

    You don't choose a target for Craig Boone's last ability at the time it triggers. Rather, a second "reflexive" ability triggers when you put two quest counters on Craig Boone this way. You choose up to one target for that ability as it goes on the stack. Each player may respond to this triggered ability as normal.

  • 2024-06-07

    In the rare case where more than two quest counters are placed on Craig Boone because of the effect of its last ability (for example, because of the effect of Doubling Season), the reflexive triggered ability will trigger once for every two quest counters placed on Craig Boone this way.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Craig Boone, Novac Guard, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Caesar, Legion's Emperor 1 0 —
Isshin, Two Heavens as One 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mardu 2 decks

Every version of Craig Boone, Novac Guard

2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Craig Boone, Novac Guard — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.