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Tiana, Ship's Caretaker

Tiana, Ship's Caretaker

Legendary Creature — Angel Artificer

Tiana wants a deck that sacrifices its own creatures to drain opponents' life. It also works in a deck built around Angels or Artificers.

  • Mana cost3 genericredwhite
  • White, Red ()
  • Power / toughness3 / 3
  • RarityUncommon

Flying, first strike

Whenever an Aura or Equipment you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may return that card to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

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Archetypes

Cards That Fit Tiana, Ship's Caretaker

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

explain how Tiana 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 27 Apr 2018

If an Aura or Equipment is put into your graveyard during an end step, you'll be able to return it during the next end step, not the current one.

Wizards of the Coast 27 Apr 2018

If an Aura or Equipment leaves the graveyard after triggering Tiana's last ability, it won't be returned to its owner's hand as the delayed triggered ability resolves.

Wizards of the Coast 27 Apr 2018

If an Aura or Equipment you control is put into a graveyard at the same time as Tiana is, most likely because an effect destroyed all nonland permanents, you'll be able to return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Wizards of the Coast 27 Apr 2018

If an Aura you control is put into a graveyard immediately after Tiana leaves the battlefield, most likely because Tiana left the battlefield but the Aura was put into the graveyard as a state-based action after it found itself not attached to anything, Tiana's last ability won't trigger.

Wizards of the Coast 27 Apr 2018

Tiana's last ability triggers and creates a delayed triggered ability that will let you return the Aura or Equipment during the next end step. It will do so even if Tiana leaves the battlefield before the next end step.

5 rulings, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with Tiana, 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 glossaryWRPlayers write colors as letters: W for white, R for red.AristocratsAristocrats decks sacrifice their own creatures on purpose and profit every time one dies, often by draining life from each opponent. A sacrifice outlet, a card that lets you sacrifice whenever you like, decides when that happens.Open the Aristocrats pageDeath TriggerTriggers when a creature dies, whether it is this creature, one of yours or an opponent's. These are the cards that pay you in an Aristocrats deck: something else makes creatures die, and these decide what you get each time. Blood Artist, Solemn SimulacrumOpen the Death Trigger pageEvasionAn ability that makes a creature hard to block, so its attacks reach the player. Flying, menace, landwalk and plain 'can't be blocked' are the common kinds.Open the Evasion page