Sage of Shaila's Claim

Combos with Sage of Shaila's Claim

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.

• Emiel the Blessed Lightning Runner Circle of Dreams Druid Infinite
  • Infinite combat phases
  • Infinite creature ETB
  • Infinite creature LTB
  See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
• Wulfgar of Icewind Dale Lightning Runner Delina, Wild Mage Infinite
  • Infinite combat phases
  • Infinite copies of creatures you control
  • Infinite creature tokens
  • Infinite energy counters
  • Infinite creature ETB
  • Infinite creature LTB
  • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
  • Infinite untap of creatures you control
  See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
• Delina, Wild Mage Lightning Runner Harmonic Prodigy Infinite
  • Infinite combat phases
  • Infinite copies of creatures you control
  • Infinite creature tokens
  • Infinite energy counters
  • Infinite creature ETB
  • Infinite creature LTB
  • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
  • Infinite untap of creatures you control
  See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

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

Rulings

9 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

• 2024-06-07

  If a spell or ability with one or more targets states that you "may pay" some amount of E, and each permanent that it targets has become an illegal target, the spell or ability won't resolve. You can't pay any E even if you want to.

• 2024-06-07

  If an effect says you get one or more E, you get that many energy counters. To pay one or more E, you lose that many energy counters. You can't pay more energy counters than you have. Any effects that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with energy counters.

• 2024-06-07

  Some triggered abilities state that you "may pay" a certain amount of E. You can't pay that amount multiple times to multiply the effect. You simply choose whether or not to pay that amount of E as the ability resolves.

• 2024-06-07

  Some spells and abilities that give you E may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't get any E.

• 2024-06-07

  Energy counters aren't mana. They don't go away as steps, phases, and turns end, and effects that add mana "of any type" can't give you energy counters.

• 2024-06-07

  E is the energy symbol. It represents one energy counter.

• 2024-06-07

  Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.

• 2024-06-07

  Keep track of how many energy counters each player has. Potential ways to track this include writing theme down on paper or using dice, but any method that is clear and mutually agreeable is fine. (At higher levels of tournament play, dice may not be allowed for tracking counters that players have.)

• 2024-06-07

  Some triggered abilities that state that you "may pay" a certain amount of E describe an effect that happens "If you do." In that case, no player may take actions to try to stop the ability's effect after you make your choice. If the payment is followed by the phrase "When you do," then you'll choose any targets for that reflexive triggered ability and put it on the stack before players can take actions.

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 Shaila's Claim, whatever its commander.