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Ayesha Tanaka

Ayesha Tanaka

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer

Ayesha Tanaka wants a deck that answers everything its opponents play, then wins late. It also works in a deck built around Artificers or Humans.

  • Mana costwhitewhiteblueblue
  • White, Blue ()
  • Power / toughness2 / 2
  • RarityRare

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

tap: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source unless that ability's controller pays white. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

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Cards That Fit Ayesha Tanaka

Picked for what they do in Ayesha Tanaka's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Ayesha Tanaka'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 Ayesha Tanaka

explain how Ayesha Tanaka 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 1 Oct 2008

A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.

Wizards of the Coast 1 Oct 2008

Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.

Wizards of the Coast 1 Oct 2008

If a creature with banding attacks, it can team up with any number of other attacking creatures with banding (and up to one nonbanding creature) and attack as a unit called a "band." The band can be blocked by any creature that could block a single creature in the band. Blocking any creature in a band blocks the entire band. If a creature with banding is blocked, the attacking player chooses how the blockers' damage is assigned.

Wizards of the Coast 1 Oct 2009

If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Jun 2016

Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.

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

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with Ayesha Tanaka, 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 glossaryWUPlayers write colors as letters: W for white, U for blue. Blue is U because B was already taken by black.ControlControl decks answer what everyone else plays, stopping spells and removing dangerous cards, then win slowly once they are in charge. Expect lots of removal, spells that cancel other spells, and extra card draw.Open the Control pageCounterspell - SoftCounters the spell unless its controller pays an additional cost, so an opponent with mana to spare can buy their way through. Mana LeakOpen the Counterspell - Soft pageCounterspellCancels a spell or ability while it is waiting on the stack, so it never takes effect. The countered spell goes to its owner's graveyard without doing anything. CounterspellOpen the Counterspell pageStack InteractionActs while a spell is waiting to take effect: countering it, changing what it targets, or copying it. When someone casts a spell it waits on the stack, and every player gets priority, a chance to respond, before it happens. Counterspell, NegateOpen the Stack Interaction page