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Caesar, Legion's Emperor

Caesar, Legion's Emperor

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

Caesar wants a deck that deals damage straight to its opponents. It leads the ready-made Hail, Caesar deck (2024).

  • Mana cost1 genericredwhiteblack
  • White, Black, Red ()
  • Power / toughness4 / 4
  • RarityMythic

Whenever you attack, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, choose two —

• Create two 1/1 red and white Soldier creature tokens with haste that are tapped and attacking.

• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

• Caesar deals damage equal to the number of creature tokens you control to target opponent.

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Cards That Fit Caesar, Legion's Emperor

Picked for what they do in Caesar's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Caesar'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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Decks Led by Caesar, Legion's Emperor

Caesar leads a ready-made deck.PreconShort for preconstructed deck: a ready-to-play deck sold in a box by Wizards of the Coast. A Commander precon comes with its commander and all 100 cards, so you can play it straight away and change cards later.Open the full glossary

Rulings for Caesar, Legion's Emperor

explain how Caesar 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 8 Mar 2024

The Soldier tokens created by Caesar's ability enter the battlefield tapped and attacking, but since they weren't declared as attacking creatures, no abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks or whenever you attack (such as Caesar's own ability) will trigger.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

You don't choose modes or a target for Caesar, Legion's Emperor's ability at the time it triggers. Rather, a second "reflexive" ability triggers when you sacrifice another creature this way. You choose modes and, if you chose the third mode, a target for that ability as it goes on the stack. Each player may respond to this triggered ability as normal.

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

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Commanders that share the most with Caesar, 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 glossaryWBRPlayers write colors as letters: W for white, B for black, R for red.BurnBurn decks win by dealing damage straight to opponents with spells and abilities, rather than by attacking with creatures. Damage that hits every opponent at once counts three times over at a four-player table.Open the Burn pageAttack TriggerTriggers when a creature attacks, so the reward comes from declaring the attack. You get it even if the creature is blocked. Sword of the Animist, Adeline, Resplendent CatharOpen the Attack Trigger pageBurnDeals damage directly, to creatures or to players. Because it can hit a player as easily as a creature, the same card can remove a blocker or finish off an opponent. Lightning Bolt, Blasphemous ActOpen the Burn pageToken EngineMakes tokens again and again rather than once. A token is a creature or other permanent created by a card, with no card of its own. Something that makes one token gives you a body; something that makes them every turn gives you a board you can keep rebuilding after it is cleared. Grave Titan, Bitterblossom, OphiomancerOpen the Token Engine pageToken MakerCreates one or more tokens. Different cards make very different ones: creatures Grave Titan, Treasures Smothering Tithe, Clues Tireless Tracker or Food Gilded Goose. This is one of our largest tags, so pair it with an archetype or theme when you are hunting a specific kind.Open the Token Maker pageTokensToken decks fill the battlefield with small creatures made by their cards, then attack with all of them or make them all bigger at once. A token is a creature (or other object) that a card creates, not a card from your deck.Open the Tokens pageSoldiersSoldiers are mostly white, and many cards make Soldier tokens, so Soldier decks tend to spread out with lots of creatures.Open the Soldiers page