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Hua Tuo, Honored Physician

Hua Tuo, Honored Physician

Legendary Creature — Human

Hua Tuo wants a deck that sacrifices its own creatures to drain opponents' life. It also works in a deck built around Humans or Library Manipulation.

  • Mana cost1 genericgreengreen
  • Green ()
  • Power / toughness1 / 2
  • RarityRare

tap: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

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Cards That Fit Hua Tuo, Honored Physician

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

explain how Hua Tuo 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 20 Sep 2013

If a turn has multiple combat phases, the ability can only be activated before the beginning of the declare attackers step of the first combat phase in that turn.

1 ruling, 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 glossaryGPlayers write colors as letters: G for green.AristocratsAristocrats decks sacrifice their own creatures on purpose and profit every time one dies, often by draining life from each opponent. A sacrifice outlet, a card that lets you sacrifice whenever you like, decides when that happens.Open the Aristocrats 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 pageLibrary ManipulationCards that let you look at, rearrange or play from the top of your deck, so you control what you draw next.Open the Library Manipulation page