Shaun, Father of Synths
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever you attack, you may create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of target attacking legendary creature you control other than Shaun, except it's not legendary and it's a Synth artifact creature in addition to its other types.
When Shaun leaves the battlefield, exile all Synth tokens you control.
Combos with Shaun, Father of Synths
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.
- Breath of Fury Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite combat phases
- Infinite untap of creatures you control
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite combat damage
- Aurelia, the Warleader Infinite
- Infinite combat phases
- Infinite creature tokens with haste
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite untap of creatures you control
- Raphael, Tag Team Tough Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite combat damage
- Infinite combat phases
- Infinite creature tokens
- Godo, Bandit Warlord Amulet of Vigor Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite combat phases
- Infinite creature tokens with haste
- Put all Equipment cards from your library onto the battlefield
- Infinite untap of Samurai you control
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
8 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-03-08
You declare which player, planeswalker, or battle the token is attacking as you put it onto the battlefield. It doesn’t have to be attacking the same player, planeswalker, or battle that Shaun is attacking.
- 2024-03-08
Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any “as [this creature] enters the battlefield” or “[this creature] enters the battlefield with” abilities of the copied creature will also work.
- 2024-03-08
Except for the noted exceptions, the token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn’t copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.
- 2024-03-08
Shaun’s last ability will exile all Synth tokens you control, not just Synth tokens created by its first ability.
- 2024-03-08
If the copied creature has X in its mana cost, X is 0.
- 2024-03-08
Although the token is attacking, it was never declared as an attacking creature. This means that abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks won’t trigger when it enters the battlefield attacking.
- 2024-03-08
If the copied creature is copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied, with the noted exceptions.
- 2024-03-08
If the copied creature is a token, the token that’s created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created that token, with the noted exceptions.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Shaun, Father of Synths, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Madison Li | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Jeskai 1 deck
Every version of Shaun, Father of Synths
4 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.
- Normal
- $0.33
- Foil
- $1.80
Extended Art
- Normal
- $1.02
- Foil
- $1.60
- Foil
- $3.06
Extended Art
- Foil
- $4.82
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Shaun, Father of Synths. 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.
