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General Leo Cristophe

General Leo Cristophe

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

General Leo Cristophe wants a deck that brings big creatures back from the discard pile. It also works in a deck built around Humans or Soldiers.

  • Mana cost4 genericwhite
  • White ()
  • Power / toughness2 / 2
  • RarityRare

When General Leo Cristophe enters, return up to one target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Then put a +1/+1 counter on General Leo Cristophe for each creature you control.

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Cards That Fit General Leo Cristophe

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

explain how General Leo Cristophe 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 6 Jun 2025

If a card in your graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.

Wizards of the Coast 6 Jun 2025

If the target creature card is an illegal target as General Leo Cristophe's ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't put +1/+1 counters on General Leo Cristophe.

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

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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 glossaryWPlayers write colors as letters: W for white.ReanimatorReanimator decks put big creatures into their own graveyard early, then bring them back onto the battlefield without paying their cost. It gets a huge creature into play far sooner than you could afford to cast it.Open the Reanimator pageReanimationReturns a creature card from a graveyard straight to the battlefield, skipping its mana cost. That is why decks built around it put their biggest creatures into the graveyard on purpose. Named for Reanimate. Animate DeadOpen the Reanimation pageRecursionBrings cards back from the graveyard: to your hand, to the battlefield, or letting them be cast again from where they lie. Eternal Witness, Reanimate, VictimizeOpen the Recursion page