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Raul, Trouble Shooter

Raul, Trouble Shooter

Legendary Creature — Zombie Mutant Rogue

Raul wants a deck that fills its discard pile and plays cards back out of it. It also suits a deck that wins by emptying its opponents' decks.

  • Mana cost1 genericblueblack
  • Blue, Black ()
  • Power / toughness1 / 4
  • RarityUncommon

Once during each of your turns, you may cast a spell from among cards in your graveyard that were milled this turn.

tap: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

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Cards That Fit Raul, Trouble Shooter

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

explain how Raul 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

If you are instructed to put a card into your graveyard from your library without using the word “mill,” (by the effect of Rowan’s Grim Search from Wilds of Eldraine, for example), Raul’s first ability won’t allow you to cast it.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

If you cast a spell from among cards in your graveyard that were milled this turn using another permission, Raul’s effect doesn’t apply. You can cast another spell among cards in your graveyard that were milled this turn using the permission granted by Raul’s first ability.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

If you cast a spell from among cards in your graveyard that were milled this turn using the permission granted by Raul’s first ability and then have a new Raul, Trouble Shooter come under your control in the same turn, you may cast another spell from among cards in your graveyard that were milled this turn.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

Once you begin to cast the spell, losing control of Raul won’t affect the spell.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions of the spell you cast from your graveyard.

Wizards of the Coast 8 Mar 2024

You must pay the costs to cast that spell. If it has an alternative cost, you may cast it for that cost instead.

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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 glossaryUBPlayers write colors as letters: U for blue, B for black. Blue is U because B was already taken by black.Graveyard/Self-MillGraveyard decks fill their own graveyard on purpose, then play cards from it as if it were a second hand. Moving cards from the top of your own deck straight into the graveyard is called self-mill.Open the Graveyard/Self-Mill pageMillPuts cards from the top of a player's library, the deck they draw from, straight into their graveyard. Aimed at opponents it can win the game, because a player who has to draw from an empty library loses.Open the Mill pageSelf-MillPuts cards from your OWN library into your graveyard on purpose. Milling means moving cards off the top of a library into a graveyard. Aimed at an opponent that is an attack; aimed at yourself it is setup, filling the graveyard for the cards that want to use what is in it. Stitcher's Supplier, Hermit DruidOpen the Self-Mill pageMillMill decks win by emptying opponents' libraries, the decks they draw from: a player who has to draw from an empty library loses the game. Milling means putting cards from the top of a library straight into the graveyard.Open the Mill pageLibrary ManipulationCards that let you look at, rearrange or play from the top of your deck, so you control what you draw next.Open the Library Manipulation page