Printings
Akroma's Will
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Commander Legends (CMR)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 3
Oracle Text
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn. • Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- November 17, 2025
"Protection from each color" is shorthand for protection from white, from blue, from black, from red, and from green. Colorless is not a color.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2020
Once you've announced that you're casting a spell, players can't take any actions until you've finished doing so. Notably, opponents can't try to remove your commander to change how many modes you may choose.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2020
Even though the card is named after a specific character, controlling any commander will satisfy its condition.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2020
There's no extra bonus if you control more than one commander.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2020
Once you've chosen both modes for the spell, it doesn't matter whether you continue to control a commander. This is true even if you somehow no longer control a commander as you finish casting the spell.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2020
The commander you control doesn't have to be your commander.
Source: wotc
Price History
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