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The Animus

Legendary Artifact MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target legendary creature card from a graveyard with a memory counter on it.

T: Until your next turn, target legendary creature you control becomes a copy of target creature card in exile with a memory counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery.

Combos with The Animus

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.

  • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad Éomer, Marshal of Rohan Mondrak, Glory Dominus Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite combat phases
    • Infinite untap of creatures you control
    • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad Éomer, Marshal of Rohan Gogo, Mysterious Mime Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite combat phases
    • Infinite untap of creatures you control
    • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad Éomer, Marshal of Rohan Redoubled Stormsinger Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite combat phases
    • Infinite death triggers
    • 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

2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-07-05

    The target legendary creature copies exactly what was printed on the card in exile and nothing else. It doesn’t copy any information about the object the card was before it was exiled.

  • 2024-07-05

    If either one of the targets of The Animus’s last ability is illegal when the ability begins to resolve, nothing will happen when the ability resolves.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes The Animus, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
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
Ezio Auditore da Firenze 2 0 —
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Five-Color 2 decks
  • Mardu 1 deck

Every version of The Animus

3 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 The Animus — 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.