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Tam, Mindful First-Year

Tam, Mindful First-Year

Legendary Creature — Gorgon Wizard

Tam wants a deck that makes attacking it too costly, so opponents fight each other. It also works in a deck built around Gorgons or Wizards.

  • Mana cost1 genericgreen or blue
  • Blue, Green ()
  • Power / toughness2 / 2
  • RarityRare

Each other creature you control has hexproof from each of its colors.

tap: Target creature you control becomes all colors until end of turn.

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Cards That Fit Tam, Mindful First-Year

Picked for what they do in Tam's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Tam'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 Tam, Mindful First-Year

explain how Tam 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 17 Nov 2025

"Hexproof from each color" is shorthand for hexproof from white, from blue, from black, from red, and from green. Colorless is not a color.

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

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with Tam, 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 glossaryUGPlayers write colors as letters: U for blue, G for green. 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 page