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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer

Leonardo da Vinci wants a deck that throws away its own cards on purpose for a reward. It also suits a deck that copies the best creature on the table.

  • Mana cost2 genericblue
  • Blue ()
  • Power / toughness3 / 3
  • RarityMythic

3 genericblueblue: Until end of turn, Thopters you control have base power and toughness X/X, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

2 genericblue, tap: Draw a card, then discard a card. If the discarded card was an artifact card, exile it from your graveyard. If you do, create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 0/2 Thopter artifact creature with flying in addition to its other types.

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Cards That Fit Leonardo da Vinci

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

explain how Leonardo da Vinci 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 5 Jul 2024

Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied card will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any “as [this artifact]” enters the battlefield or “[this artifact] enters the battlefield with” abilities of the copied card will also work.

Wizards of the Coast 5 Jul 2024

Except for the listed exceptions, the token copies exactly what was printed on the discarded card and nothing else.

Wizards of the Coast 5 Jul 2024

If the copied card has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.

Wizards of the Coast 5 Jul 2024

The token is a Thopter artifact creature in addition to its other types. Its power and toughness are 0/2, and it has flying. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy.

Wizards of the Coast 5 Jul 2024

The value of X is determined only as Leonardo’s first ability resolves. Once that happens, the value of X won’t change later in the turn even if the number of cards in your hand changes.

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

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Commanders that share the most with Leonardo da Vinci, 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.Madness/DiscardDiscard decks throw away their own cards on purpose and play cards that reward each discard. Cards with madness can even be cast for a different, usually cheaper, cost at the moment you discard them.Open the Madness/Discard pageLootingDraws and discards in the same breath. Faithless Looting, Frantic Search. It does not gain you cards. It improves the ones you have, and fills your graveyard on purpose, which is exactly what a reanimator card like Animate Dead wants.Open the Looting pageSelf-DiscardDiscards your own cards as a cost or an effect. Filling your own graveyard on purpose is the point: it feeds cards that bring things back, madness and channel abilities, and some cards are worth more there than in hand. Faithless Looting, Boseiju, Who EnduresOpen the Self-Discard pageClonesClone decks copy the best creature on the battlefield, whoever owns it, so they always have one of the strongest things on the table. A copy also gets the original's 'when this enters' ability, so each clone can bring a fresh effect too.Open the Clones pageCloneCopies a creature or another permanent already on the battlefield. Copying the best thing on the table is often cheaper than casting something equally strong. Phyrexian Metamorph, Helm of the HostOpen the Clone pageType ChangerAdds a type to permanents on top of the types they already have. Making everything an artifact or a land switches on cards that only interact with that type. Liquimetal Torque, Phyrexian MetamorphOpen the Type Changer 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 page