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MacCready, Lamplight Mayor

MacCready, Lamplight Mayor

Legendary Creature — Human Advisor

MacCready wants a deck that gains life over and over and gets rewarded for it. It also works in a deck built around Advisors or Humans.

  • Mana costwhiteblack
  • White, Black ()
  • Power / toughness1 / 3
  • RarityRare

Whenever a creature you control with power 2 or less attacks, it gains skulk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)

Whenever a creature with power 4 or greater attacks you, its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

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Cards That Fit MacCready, Lamplight Mayor

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

explain how MacCready 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

Similarly, the power of the creature attacking you is checked only when MacCready’s second ability triggers. Once it triggers, the creature’s controller will lose 2 life and you’ll gain 2 life when the ability resolves, regardless of whether or not its power is still 4 or greater at that time or whether or not it’s still on the battlefield.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

The power of your attacking creature is checked only when MacCready’s first ability triggers. Once it triggers, the creature will gain skulk until end of turn when the ability resolves, regardless of whether or not its power is still 2 or less at that time.

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 glossaryWBPlayers write colors as letters: W for white, B for black.LifegainLifegain decks gain life over and over and use cards that reward each gain with extra cards, creatures or damage to opponents. Everyone starts at 40 life in Commander, so the extra life also keeps you safe while you set up.Open the Lifegain pageLifegain EngineGains you life again and again, on a trigger that keeps happening, rather than once. You start at 40 life in Commander, so life is something to spend as well as a cushion, and a card like this sets off every card that rewards you for gaining it. Soul Warden, Trostani, Selesnya's VoiceOpen the Lifegain Engine pageLife GainGains you life, once or over and over. Soul Warden, The Great Henge. In Commander life is something to spend, not just a cushion, and many of these cards also set off others that reward gaining life.Open the Life Gain page