Sokrates, Athenian Teacher card art

Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

Legendary Creature — Human Advisor MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

Defender

Sokrates has hexproof as long as it's untapped.

Sokratic Dialogue — T: Until end of turn, target creature gains "If this creature would deal combat damage to a player, prevent that damage. This creature's controller and that player each draw half that many cards, rounded down."

Combos with Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Body of Research Teferi's Ageless Insight Infinite
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite draw triggers for target opponent
    • Near-infinite card draw for target opponent
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Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

One official ruling, as Wizards published it.

  • 2024-07-05

    If damage dealt by a creature with the ability granted by Sokrates's last ability can't be prevented for some reason, the appropriate players will still draw half that many cards, rounded down. (This won't come up often, but the unexamined ability is not worth activating.)

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Sokrates, Athenian Teacher, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — 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
Aminatou, the Fateshifter 1 0 —
Ezio Auditore da Firenze 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Esper 1 deck
  • Five-Color 1 deck

Every version of Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

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 genuinely 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 Sokrates, Athenian Teacher — a name search across every version, for 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.