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Hakim, Loreweaver

Hakim, Loreweaver

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Hakim wants a deck that brings big creatures back from the discard pile. It also works in a deck built around Humans or Wizards.

  • Mana cost3 genericblueblue
  • Blue ()
  • Power / toughness2 / 4
  • RarityRare

Flying

blueblue: Return target Aura card from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to Hakim. Activate only during your upkeep and only if Hakim isn't enchanted.

blueblue, tap: Destroy all Auras attached to Hakim.

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Cards That Fit Hakim, Loreweaver

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

explain how Hakim 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 4 Oct 2004

If you pick an Aura that can't legally enchant this card, then the Aura stays in the graveyard.

Wizards of the Coast 4 Oct 2004

You only check if he has no Auras when activating the ability. You can use the ability multiple times in response to each other to get multiple Auras on him this way.

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

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with Hakim, 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 glossaryUPlayers write colors as letters: U for blue. Blue is U because B was already taken by black.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 pageMana SinkGives you somewhere useful to spend spare mana, usually through an ability you can activate again and again. Rogue's Passage, Mind StoneOpen the Mana Sink page