Genestealer Patriarch

Format legality

Where you can play Genestealer Patriarch in sanctioned and popular formats.

All printings (2)

Prices range from $0.38 to $0.87 across finishes. Cheapest printing: Warhammer 40,000 Commander at $0.38.

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Rulings

Official rulings from Wizards of the Coast (6).

• 2022-10-07The token copies the creature as it last existed on the battlefield before it died, not as it exists in the graveyard.
• 2022-10-07If you control more than one Genestealer Patriarch as a creature with an infection counter on it dies, each one's ability will trigger, and you will make two tokens that are copies of it.
• 2022-10-07The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature was tapped or untapped, whether it had any counters on it or Auras or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that had changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.
• 2022-10-07If the copied creature was copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.
• 2022-10-07If the copied creature had {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
• 2022-10-07Any 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 creature will also work.

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