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Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant // Rune-Tail's Essence

Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant // Rune-Tail's Essence

Legendary Creature — Fox Monk // Legendary Enchantment

Rune-Tail wants a deck that makes attacking it too costly, so opponents fight each other. It also works in a deck built around Foxes or Monks.

  • Mana cost2 genericwhite
  • White ()
  • Power / toughness2 / 2
  • RarityRare

When you have 30 or more life, flip Rune-Tail.

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Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures you control.

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Cards That Fit Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant

Picked for what they do in Rune-Tail's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Rune-Tail'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 Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant

explain how Rune-Tail 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 1 Jun 2005

Each Ascendant is legendary in both its unflipped and flipped forms. This means that effects that look for legendary creature cards, such as Time of Need and Captain Sisay, can find an Ascendant.

1 ruling, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with Rune-Tail, 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.PillowfortPillowfort decks make attacking you so costly or unappealing that opponents attack each other instead. Cards like Ghostly Prison make a player pay mana for every creature that attacks you, buying time for your own plan.Open the Pillowfort pageProtectionA creature with protection from something, like a color, is safe from anything with that quality. It cannot be damaged, enchanted or equipped, blocked, or targeted by it, and players remember the four with the word DEBT. It does not stop effects that neither target nor damage, like a board wipe that destroys every creature. ProgenitusOpen the Protection page