Taniwha wants a deck that makes attacking it too costly, so opponents fight each other. It also works in a deck built around Phasing / Teferi Theme or Sea Monsters.
Mana cost
Blue ()
Power / toughness7 / 7
RarityRare
Trample
Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, all lands you control phase out. (They phase in before you untap during your next untap step.)
Picked for what they do in Taniwha's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Taniwha'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.Open the full glossary
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 glossaryUPlayers write colors as letters: 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 pagePhasing / Teferi ThemeCards with phasing, which makes a permanent vanish for a while, so removal cannot touch it. It is treated as though it does not exist until its controller's next turn.Open the Phasing / Teferi Theme page
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