Falco Spara, Pactweaver card art

Falco Spara, Pactweaver

Legendary Creature — Bird Demon MV 4

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What it does

Flying, trample

Falco Spara enters with a shield counter on it.

You may look at the top card of your library any time.

You may cast spells from the top of your library by removing a counter from a creature you control in addition to paying their other costs.

Combos with Falco Spara, Pactweaver

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Sensei's Divining Top Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Near-infinite artifact ETB
    • Near-infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite card draw
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite storm count
    • Near-infinite creature LTB
    • Near-infinite death triggers
    • Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Near-infinite colorless mana
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Devoted Druid Sensei's Divining Top Infinite
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Sensei's Divining Top The Vision and Scarlet Witch Infinite
    • Near-infinite artifact ETB
    • Near-infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Sensei's Divining Top Wizard Class Cloud Key Infinite
    • Near-infinite artifact ETB
    • Near-infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Sensei's Divining Top Glaring Fleshraker Wizard Class Infinite
    • Near-infinite artifact ETB
    • Near-infinite artifact LTB
    • Near-infinite damage
    • Infinite card draw
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite storm count
    • Near-infinite creature LTB
    • Near-infinite death triggers
    • Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Sensei's Divining Top Surge Conductor Helm of Awakening Infinite
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Sensei's Divining Top Uthros Research Craft Etherium Sculptor Infinite
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Sensei's Divining Top Luminous Broodmoth Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite card draw
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite storm count
    • Near-infinite creature LTB
    • Near-infinite death triggers
    • Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Near-infinite colorless mana
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

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Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

8 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2022-04-29

    "Shield" is not an ability that creatures have and shield counters are not keyword counters. If a creature with a shield counter loses its abilities, the shield counter will still protect it as normal.

  • 2022-04-29

    Removing a counter from a creature is an additional cost of casting the spell and may be combined with other additional costs or alternative costs that spell may have, such as casualty.

  • 2022-04-29

    If a permanent that would be dealt damage has more than one shield counter on it, that damage is prevented and only one shield counter is removed.

  • 2022-04-29

    Shield counters don't prevent players from sacrificing creatures.

  • 2022-04-29

    If you cast a spell with casualty this way, you can pay the costs in any order, which means that you may remove a counter from a creature then sacrifice it to pay the casualty cost. Bear in mind that removing a +1/+1 counter this way will reduce a creature's power, which might prevent you from paying the casualty cost with that creature.

  • 2022-04-29

    A creature with a shield counter on it may still be destroyed by state-based actions if it has damage marked on it equal to its toughness or has been dealt unpreventable damage by a source with deathtouch.

  • 2022-04-29

    Removing a shield counter in this way isn't the same as regenerating a creature.

  • 2022-04-29

    If a permanent with a shield counter is dealt unpreventable damage, that damage will be dealt and a shield counter will still be removed.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Falco Spara, Pactweaver, whatever its commander.

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

Every version of Falco Spara, Pactweaver

5 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 publishes none for some of them.

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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.