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Ghalta and Mavren

Ghalta and Mavren

Legendary Creature — Dinosaur Vampire

Ghalta and Mavren wants a deck that makes an army of small creatures and attacks with all of them. It also works in a deck built around Dinosaurs or Vampires.

  • Mana cost3 genericgreengreenwhitewhite
  • White, Green ()
  • Power / toughness12 / 12
  • RarityRare

Trample

Whenever you attack, choose one —

• Create a tapped and attacking X/X green Dinosaur creature token with trample, where X is the greatest power among other attacking creatures.

• Create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is the number of other attacking creatures.

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Archetypes

Cards That Fit Ghalta and Mavren

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

explain how Ghalta and Mavren 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 14 Apr 2023

Although the Dinosaur token enters the battlefield attacking, it was never declared as an attacking creature (for the purposes of abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks, for example).

Wizards of the Coast 14 Apr 2023

For both modes, the value of X is determined as the ability resolves.

Wizards of the Coast 14 Apr 2023

If you choose the first mode and there are no other attacking creatures, you’ll create a 0/0 Dinosaur token. Unless something else is immediately raising its toughness, the token will die. You won’t have time to respond with a spell or ability to try and save it. A similar situation occurs if the greatest power among other attacking creatures is 0 or less.

Wizards of the Coast 14 Apr 2023

If you choose the second mode and there are no other attacking creatures, you won’t create any Vampire tokens.

Wizards of the Coast 14 Apr 2023

You choose which player, planeswalker, or battle the Dinosaur token is attacking. It doesn’t have to be the same player, planeswalker, or battle that Ghalta and Mavren is attacking.

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

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with Ghalta and Mavren, 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 glossaryWGPlayers write colors as letters: W for white, G for green.TokensToken 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 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 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 pageDinosaursDinosaurs are mostly green, red and white creatures, often big, and some have enrage: they do something whenever they are dealt damage.Open the Dinosaurs pageVampiresVampires are mostly black creatures that often gain you life, drain opponents or grow with +1/+1 counters.Open the Vampires page