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Sage of Hours

Creature — Human Wizard MV 2

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What it does

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Remove all +1/+1 counters from this creature: For each five counters removed this way, take an extra turn after this one.

Combos with Sage of Hours

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.

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Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2014-04-26

    Heroic abilities won't trigger when a copy of a spell is created on the stack or when a spell's targets are changed to include a creature with a heroic ability.

  • 2014-04-26

    Heroic abilities will resolve before the spell that caused them to trigger.

  • 2014-04-26

    You must remove all +1/+1 counters from Sage of Hours to activate its ability, even if the number of counters isn't a multiple of five. For example, if you remove twelve counters to activate the ability, you'll take two extra turns. If you remove three counters, you won't take any extra turns.

  • 2014-04-26

    Heroic abilities will trigger only once per spell, even if that spell targets the creature with the heroic ability multiple times.

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 Hours, 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.

Every version of Sage of Hours

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.

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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.