Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant // Sasaya's Essence
Card Information
Type (Front): Legendary Creature — Snake Monk
Type (Back): Legendary Enchantment
Mana Cost (Front): 1
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Saviors of Kamigawa (SOK)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 145
Oracle Text
Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant
Reveal your hand: If you have seven or more land cards in your hand, flip Sasaya.
2/3
Sasaya's Essence
Whenever a land you control is tapped for mana, add an additional one mana of any type that land produced for each other land you control with the same name as it.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- June 1, 2005
Sasaya's Essence has a triggered mana ability. Like activated mana abilities, the triggered mana ability doesn't use the stack.
Source: wotc - June 1, 2005
If Sasaya's Essence's controller has four Forests and taps one of them for {G}, the Essence will add {G}{G}{G} for a total of {G}{G}{G}{G}.
Source: wotc - June 1, 2005
The triggered mana ability counts the number of other lands with that same name and adds that much mana. The type (that is, the color of mana or colorless mana) is the same as the mana the land just produced.
Source: wotc - June 1, 2005
If Sasaya's Essence's controller has two Brushlands and taps one of them for {W}, Sasaya's Essence adds another {W}. It won't produce {G} or {C} unless the land was tapped for {G} or {C} instead.
Source: wotc - June 1, 2005
Each Ascendant is legendary in both its unflipped and flipped forms. This means that effects that look for legendary creature cards, such as Time of Need and Captain Sisay, can find an Ascendant.
Source: wotc - June 1, 2005
If Sasaya's Essence's controller has four Mossfire Valley and taps one of them for {R}{G}, the Essence will add three mana (one for each other Mossfire Valley) of any combination of {R} and/or {G}.
Source: wotc - June 1, 2005
You don't need to have seven lands in hand to reveal your hand. You leave your hand revealed until the ability resolves. If you don't have seven or more land cards in your hand at that time, the effect does nothing.
Source: wotc - June 1, 2005
You don't need to tap Sasaya to use its ability, so you can activate the ability on the turn Sasaya comes under your control.
Source: wotc
Price History
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