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Rasaad yn Bashir

Rasaad yn Bashir

Legendary Creature — Human Monk

Rasaad yn Bashir wants a deck that explores dungeons for a reward in every room. It can share the lead with a Background card as a second commander.

  • Mana cost2 genericwhite
  • White ()
  • Power / toughness0 / 3
  • RarityUncommon

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Whenever Rasaad yn Bashir attacks, if you have the initiative, double the toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.

Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

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Archetypes

Cards That Fit Rasaad yn Bashir

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

explain how Rasaad yn Bashir 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 10 Jun 2022

An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

Choose a Background is a variant of the partner ability. You may have two commanders if one of them is a legendary creature with the choose a background ability and the other is a legendary Background enchantment. Backgrounds and cards with choose a Background do not interact with cards which have any other partner ability.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

If a card refers to a commander creature you own, a Background won't usually be counted or included for that effect. If another spell or ability causes your Background to become a creature, however, it will be included. Any effect that refers to your commander or a commander you own or control without specifying creature will apply to a Background that is your commander, as appropriate.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

If you control a Background that grants an ability to commander creatures you own, and you own more than one commander creature, each of them will have that ability.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders’ combined color identities.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won’t have to pay an additional {2} the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined (although your Background won’t usually be a creature anyway).

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

Rasaad yn Bashir's first ability doesn't actually change any creature's power. It changes only the amount of combat damage it assigns. All other rules and effects that check power or toughness use the real values.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

To double a creature's toughness, that creature gets +0/+X, where X is that creature's toughness as the triggered ability resolves.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Jun 2022

You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.

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

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Commanders that share the most with Rasaad yn Bashir, 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 glossaryWPlayers write colors as letters: W for white.Dungeon/InitiativeDungeon decks explore dungeons, special cards kept outside your deck, and get a reward in each room they move into. The initiative sends you into one called the Undercity, and an opponent takes it from you by dealing combat damage to you.Open the Dungeon/Initiative pageInitiativeA title only one player holds at a time. When you take it, and at the start of each of your turns while you hold it, you move one room through the Undercity, a dungeon with a reward in every room. An opponent takes it from you by dealing combat damage to you.Open the Initiative pageBackgrounds MatterBackgrounds are legendary enchantments that can join your commander in the command zone. Only a commander that says Choose a Background can take one.Open the Backgrounds Matter pageDungeons / InitiativeCards that send you into a dungeon, a special card kept outside your deck, one room at a time for a reward in each room. Taking the initiative does this too.Open the Dungeons / Initiative page