Card Spotlight
Captain America, Living Legend
A 3-mana Azorius Hero from Marvel Super Heroes with vigilance that untaps each creature you control the first time it becomes tapped during your turn, so every tap ability on your board can be used twice.
Commander Spotlight
Captain America, Living Legend ↗
A 3-mana Azorius Hero from Marvel Super Heroes with vigilance that untaps each creature you control the first time it becomes tapped during your turn, so every tap ability on your board can be used twice.
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Strategies it goes well with
- Tap-ability value decks. Any creature with a valuable tap ability, such as a mana dork, a card-draw creature, or a utility creature, can use that ability twice on your turn.
- Vigilance and attack-plus-block decks. An attacker that gets untapped can still block afterward, letting an aggressive board double as a defensive one on the same turn.
- Hero tribal. It carries the Hero creature type itself, giving a Hero-tribal shell a body that does more than fill out the creature count.
How it does in Commander
As the commander
As the commander, repeated access to the untap effect rewards a deck built around tap-ability creatures. Mana dorks and utility creatures can each be used twice on every turn it's on the battlefield.
In the 99
A strong support piece in any Azorius deck already running creatures with valuable tap abilities, even without building the whole 99 around the effect.
Formats it's strong in
- Mana-dork and tap-ability decks. Doubling the use of a mana creature or a value tap ability every turn is a real, compounding advantage.
- Attack-and-hold-back strategies. Vigilance plus the untap effect means attackers stay available as blockers, which is a strong defensive-offensive hybrid.
Formats it's weak in
- Decks with few tap abilities. Without creatures that want to tap for something valuable, the untap effect has little to work with.
- Very fast, aggressive decks. A three-mana value creature with no direct impact on the board is a step behind a deck racing to close the game out early.
Synergistic cards
Sol Ring ↗
Not a creature, so this ability doesn't untap it. It still fits a deck built around doubling its mana.
Ornithopter of Paradise ↗
A colorless mana creature. Captain America untaps it the first time it taps on your turn, so it adds two mana each of your turns.
Wall of Omens ↗
A cheap white defender that draws a card when it enters, holding the ground while your other creatures attack.
Any strong utility tap-ability creature ↗
The card doubles abilities a deck already wants to use, so the better the ability, the bigger the payoff.
Is it worth the price?
As a recent-set card, Captain America, Living Legend is inexpensive and a reasonable pickup for an Azorius tap-ability or Hero-tribal deck, with very little financial risk.
Frequently asked questions
How does Captain America, Living Legend's untap ability work?
Whenever a creature you control becomes tapped during your turn for the first time that turn, untap it. That covers attacking, tapping for a mana ability, or activating a tap ability, so each creature you control can tap twice on your turn.
What decks want Captain America, Living Legend?
Any deck relying on creatures with valuable tap abilities, such as mana dorks, tap-for-value creatures, or attackers you also want available as blockers. The once-per-creature untap doubles each of those abilities for the turn.
Does Captain America, Living Legend let creatures attack twice?
No. Untapping an attacker doesn't grant an extra combat or let it attack again. The creature is available to block or tap for something else afterward, which is still useful.