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Harold and Bob, First Numens

Harold and Bob, First Numens

Legendary Creature — Treefolk Mutant

Harold and Bob wants a deck that makes huge amounts of mana for giant spells. It also suits a deck that removes its creatures and brings them right back to reuse them.

  • Mana cost2 genericgreen
  • Green ()
  • Power / toughness3 / 3
  • RarityRare

Reach, vigilance

When Harold and Bob dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield. It's an Aura enchantment with enchant Forest you control and "Enchanted Forest has 'tap: Add three mana of any one color. You get two rad counters.'" Harold and Bob loses all other abilities.

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Cards That Fit Harold and Bob, First Numens

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

explain how Harold and Bob 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

A token that's a copy of Harold and Bob won't return to the battlefield from its owner's graveyard.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

Any effects (such as proliferate) that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with rad counters.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

If a nontoken permanent that's a copy of Harold and Bob dies while it's a creature, it will return to the battlefield as an Aura with only the abilities granted by the effect that returned it to the battlefield. It will also retain its name, colors, and supertypes, but it will be an Aura enchantment with no other types or subtypes.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

If a player has fewer cards remaining in their library than the number of rad counters they have when the triggered ability resolves, they'll mill as many cards as they can.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

If there's nothing for Harold and Bob to legally enchant, it remains in its owner's graveyard instead of returning to the battlefield.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

If you control Harold and Bob, you'll return it to the battlefield when it dies while it's a creature. It doesn't matter who owns the card. You'll choose which Forest you control it will enchant as it returns to the battlefield.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

In a game using the shared team turns option, such as an Archenemy or Two-Headed Giant game, the inherent triggered ability associated with rad counters triggers once for each player on the active team that has rad counters. Each instance of that ability is controlled by one of those players.

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Keep track of how many rad counters each player has. Potential ways to track this include writing them down on paper or using dice, but any method that is clear and mutually agreeable is fine.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

Rad counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

Rad counters don't go away as steps, phases, or turns end. They only go away when an effect instructs a player to remove rad counters from themselves.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

The cards are milled all at once, which means abilities that trigger "whenever one or more nonland cards are milled" will trigger exactly once as long as at least one nonland card was milled.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

There is an inherent triggered ability associated with having rad counters. This triggered ability has no source and is controlled by the active player. The full text of this ability is "At the beginning of the precombat main phase of a player with rad counters, that player mills cards equal to the number of rad counters they have. For each nonland card milled this way, that player loses 1 life and removes one rad counter from themselves."

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