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Ian the Reckless

Ian the Reckless

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior

Ian the Reckless fits a red deck built around Humans or Warriors. Its deck may only use red cards, plus colorless ones.

  • Mana cost1 genericred
  • Red ()
  • Power / toughness2 / 1
  • RarityUncommon

Whenever Ian the Reckless attacks, if it's modified, you may have it deal damage equal to its power to you and any target. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

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Rulings for Ian the Reckless

explain how Ian the Reckless 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

If Ian the Reckless isn’t modified when it attacks, its ability won’t trigger at all. When its ability tries to resolve, if it isn’t modified at that time, the ability won’t resolve.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

If Ian the Reckless leaves the battlefield before its last ability resolves, as long as it was modified when it was last on the battlefield, use its power as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how much damage that ability deals.

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 glossaryRPlayers write colors as letters: R for red.