Ephara, God of the Polis

Printings

  • Born of the Gods (BNG)#145
  • Pioneer Masters (PIO)#305
  • Secret Lair Drop (SLD)#72

Ephara, God of the Polis

Card Information

Type: Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

Mana Cost: 2White manaBlue mana

CMC: 4

Part of the Reserved List: No

Color Identity: Mana symbol for UMana symbol for W

Set: Born of the Gods (BNG)

Rarity: Mythic

Collector Number: 145

Oracle Text

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white and blue is less than seven, Ephara isn't a creature. At the beginning of each upkeep, if you had another creature enter the battlefield under your control last turn, draw a card.

Keywords

Indestructible

Format Legalities

duel(Legal)
brawl(Legal)
penny(Legal)
predh(Not Legal)
future(Not Legal)
legacy(Legal)
modern(Legal)
pauper(Not Legal)
alchemy(Not Legal)
pioneer(Legal)
vintage(Legal)
historic(Legal)
standard(Not Legal)
timeless(Legal)
commander(Legal)
gladiator(Legal)
oldschool(Not Legal)
premodern(Not Legal)
oathbreaker(Legal)
standardbrawl(Not Legal)
paupercommander(Not Legal)

Card Rulings

  1. January 24, 2020

    As a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color will determine whether any replacement effects that affect creatures entering the battlefield apply to that God. Because replacement effects are considered before the God is on the battlefield, the mana symbols in its mana cost won't be counted when determining this.

    Source: wotc
  2. January 24, 2020

    If an effect causes a God to lose all abilities, its ability that causes it to stop being a creature still applies if appropriate.

    Source: wotc
  3. January 24, 2020

    The type-changing ability that can make a God not be a creature functions only on the battlefield. It's always a creature card in other zones, regardless of your devotion to its color. It's always a creature spell while it's on the stack.

    Source: wotc
  4. January 24, 2020

    Your devotion to two colors is the number of mana symbols among mana costs of permanents you control that are the first color, the second, or both. If an effect counts your devotion to two colors, a hybrid symbol that is both of those colors is counted just once.

    Source: wotc
  5. January 24, 2020

    When a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color (including the mana symbols in the mana cost of the God itself) will determine if a creature entered the battlefield or not for abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield.

    Source: wotc
  6. January 24, 2020

    If a God is attacking or blocking and it stops being a creature, it will be removed from combat. It won't rejoin combat if it resumes being a creature later during that combat.

    Source: wotc
  7. January 24, 2020

    If a God stops being a creature, it loses the type creature and the creature type God. It continues to be a legendary enchantment.

    Source: wotc
  8. January 24, 2020

    Counters put on a God remain on it while it's not a creature, even if they have no effect.

    Source: wotc
  9. January 24, 2020

    The abilities of Gods function as long as they're on the battlefield, regardless of whether they're creatures.

    Source: wotc
  10. February 1, 2014

    Ephara's last ability checks at the beginning of each upkeep whether another creature entered the battlefield under your control last turn. If one did, it will trigger; otherwise, it won't. The ability will trigger only once no matter how many creatures entered the battlefield under your control that turn, as long as at least one did.

    Source: wotc
  11. February 1, 2014

    If a noncreature permanent you control (such as an Aura with bestow) becomes a creature, it will not cause Ephara's last ability to trigger the following turn. This is true even if that noncreature permanent became a creature the same turn it entered the battlefield.

    Source: wotc
  12. February 1, 2014

    The last ability will trigger regardless of what has happened to the creature that entered the battlefield on the previous turn. It doesn't matter whether it's still under your control or whether it's still on the battlefield.

    Source: wotc
  13. September 15, 2013

    Numeric mana symbols ({0}, {1}, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.

    Source: wotc
  14. September 15, 2013

    If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it's still on the battlefield at that time.

    Source: wotc
  15. September 15, 2013

    Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).

    Source: wotc
  16. September 15, 2013

    Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.

    Source: wotc

Price History

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