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Queen Kayla bin-Kroog

Queen Kayla bin-Kroog

Legendary Creature — Human Noble

Queen Kayla bin-Kroog wants a deck that throws away its own cards on purpose for a reward. It also works in a deck built around Humans or Nobles.

  • Mana cost1 genericredwhite
  • White, Red ()
  • Power / toughness2 / 3
  • RarityRare

4 generic, tap: Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards. You may choose an artifact or creature card with mana value 1 you discarded this way, then do the same for artifact or creature cards with mana values 2 and 3. Return those cards to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

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Cards That Fit Queen Kayla bin-Kroog

Picked for what they do in Queen Kayla bin-Kroog's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Queen Kayla bin-Kroog'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 Queen Kayla bin-Kroog

explain how Queen Kayla bin-Kroog 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 14 Oct 2022

From among the discarded cards, you may choose an artifact or creature card with mana value 1, you may choose an artifact or creature card with mana value 2, and you may choose an artifact or creature card with mana value 3. Then put all the chosen cards onto the battlefield simultaneously.

Wizards of the Coast 14 Oct 2022

If a replacement effect causes cards you discard this way to be exiled rather than go to the graveyard, Queen Kayla bin-Kroog's ability can still find those cards in exile. You can still put cards discarded this way onto the battlefield with Queen Kayla's ability.

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

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Commanders that share the most with Queen Kayla bin-Kroog, 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 glossaryWRPlayers write colors as letters: W for white, R for red.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 page