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Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

Legendary Creature — Human Advisor

Sokrates wants a deck that makes attacking it too costly, so opponents fight each other. It also works in a deck built around Advisors, Defender / Walls or Humans.

  • Mana cost1 genericwhiteblue
  • White, Blue ()
  • Power / toughness0 / 4
  • RarityRare

Defender

Sokrates has hexproof as long as it's untapped.

Sokratic Dialogue — tap: Until end of turn, target creature gains "If this creature would deal combat damage to a player, prevent that damage. This creature's controller and that player each draw half that many cards, rounded down."

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Cards That Fit Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

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

explain how Sokrates 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 5 Jul 2024

If damage dealt by a creature with the ability granted by Sokrates's last ability can't be prevented for some reason, the appropriate players will still draw half that many cards, rounded down. (This won't come up often, but the unexamined ability is not worth activating.)

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

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with Sokrates, 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 glossaryWUPlayers write colors as letters: W for white, U for blue. Blue is U because B was already taken by black.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 pageDefender / WallsWalls and other creatures with defender, which cannot attack, plus the cards that put them to work anyway. Some let these creatures attack, or deal combat damage equal to their toughness instead of their power.Open the Defender / Walls page