Sage of Ancient Lore card art

Sage of Ancient Lore

Creature — Human Shaman Werewolf // Creature — Werewolf MV 5

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What it does

Sage of Ancient Lore's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.

When this creature enters, draw a card.

At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform this creature.

Vigilance, trample

Werewolf of Ancient Hunger's power and toughness are each equal to the total number of cards in all players' hands.

At the beginning of each upkeep, if a player cast two or more spells last turn, transform this creature.

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2016-04-08

    The abilities that transform a Werewolf back and forth look at the entire previous turn, even if the Werewolf with that ability wasn't on the battlefield for some or all of that turn.

  • 2016-04-08

    If you have no cards in hand after Sage of Ancient Lore enters the battlefield, it will be put into your graveyard before its first triggered ability resolves. You'll draw a card, but Sage of Ancient Lore will already be gone.

  • 2016-04-08

    To trigger the Werewolf's back face's transform ability, a single player must have cast two or more spells during the previous turn. If multiple players each cast just one spell during the previous turn, the ability won't trigger.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Sage of Ancient Lore, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
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.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Tovolar, Dire Overlord 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Gruul 1 deck

Every version of Sage of Ancient Lore

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 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 Sage of Ancient Lore. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.