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Amber Gristle O'Maul

Amber Gristle O'Maul

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Cleric

Amber Gristle O'Maul wants a deck that fills its discard pile and plays cards back out of it. It can share the lead with a Background card as a second commander.

  • Mana cost3 genericred
  • Red ()
  • Power / toughness3 / 3
  • RarityUncommon

Haste

Whenever Amber Gristle O'Maul attacks, you may discard your hand. If you do, draw a card for each player being attacked.

Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

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Archetypes

Cards That Fit Amber Gristle O'Maul

Picked for what they do in Amber Gristle O'Maul's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Amber Gristle O'Maul's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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Rulings for Amber Gristle O'Maul

explain how Amber Gristle O'Maul works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

Choose a Background is a variant of the partner ability. You may have two commanders if one of them is a legendary creature with the choose a background ability and the other is a legendary Background enchantment. Backgrounds and cards with choose a Background do not interact with cards which have any other partner ability.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

If a card refers to a commander creature you own, a Background won't usually be counted or included for that effect. If another spell or ability causes your Background to become a creature, however, it will be included. Any effect that refers to your commander or a commander you own or control without specifying creature will apply to a Background that is your commander, as appropriate.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

If you control a Background that grants an ability to commander creatures you own, and you own more than one commander creature, each of them will have that ability.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders' combined color identities.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won't have to pay an additional {2} the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined (although your Background won't usually be a creature anyway).

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

You decide whether to discard your hand as Amber Gristle O'Maul's ability resolves. No player may respond after you have decided to discard your hand but before you have drawn cards.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

You may choose to discard your hand even if it is empty. Especially if it is empty.

12 rulings, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with Amber Gristle O'Maul, and what they share.

Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryRPlayers write colors as letters: R for red.Graveyard/Self-MillGraveyard decks fill their own graveyard on purpose, then play cards from it as if it were a second hand. Moving cards from the top of your own deck straight into the graveyard is called self-mill.Open the Graveyard/Self-Mill pageSelf-DiscardDiscards your own cards as a cost or an effect. Filling your own graveyard on purpose is the point: it feeds cards that bring things back, madness and channel abilities, and some cards are worth more there than in hand. Faithless Looting, Boseiju, Who EnduresOpen the Self-Discard pageDrawDraws you extra cards. More cards means more choices every turn, and in a 100-card deck it is the main way to find the pieces you need. Rhystic Study, SkullclampOpen the Draw pageBackgrounds MatterBackgrounds are legendary enchantments that can join your commander in the command zone. Only a commander that says Choose a Background can take one.Open the Backgrounds Matter page