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Questing Beast

Questing Beast

Legendary Creature — Beast

Questing Beast wants a deck that hurts its own creatures on purpose to set off their abilities. It also works in a deck built around Beasts.

  • Mana cost2 genericgreengreen
  • Green ()
  • Power / toughness4 / 4
  • RarityMythic

Vigilance, deathtouch, haste

Questing Beast can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

Combat damage that would be dealt by creatures you control can't be prevented.

Whenever Questing Beast deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to target planeswalker that player controls.

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Archetypes
Themes
  • Beasts

Cards That Fit Questing Beast

Picked for what they do in Questing Beast's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Questing Beast'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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The 6 Cards

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Rulings for Questing Beast

explain how Questing Beast 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 4 Oct 2019

If the opponent dealt damage controls no planeswalkers, Questing Beast's last ability simply does nothing.

Wizards of the Coast 4 Oct 2019

Once a creature with power 3 or greater has blocked this creature, changing the power of the blocking creature won't cause this creature to become unblocked.

Wizards of the Coast 4 Oct 2019

Questing Beast only stops combat damage from being prevented by effects that specifically use the word “prevent.”

Wizards of the Coast 4 Oct 2019

The damage Questing Beast deals to the target planeswalker as its last ability resolves isn't combat damage.

4 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 glossaryGPlayers write colors as letters: G for green.EnrageEnrage decks use creatures that do something every time they are dealt damage, then damage them on purpose to set it off. A card that damages every creature can set off all of them at once.Open the Enrage pageEvasionAn ability that makes a creature hard to block, so its attacks reach the player. Flying, menace, landwalk and plain 'can't be blocked' are the common kinds.Open the Evasion pageDamage ReflectionSends damage somewhere other than where it was aimed: bouncing it back at its source, or moving it onto another creature. It turns a big attack into the attacker's problem. Deflecting Palm, PariahOpen the Damage Reflection page