Sunbird Standard // Sunbird Effigy
Card Information
Type (Front): Artifact
Type (Back): Artifact Creature — Bird Construct
Mana Cost (Front): 3
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 262
Oracle Text
Sunbird Standard
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Craft with one or more {5} ({5}, Exile this artifact, Exile one or more other permanents you control and/or cards from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)
Sunbird Effigy
Flying, vigilance, haste Sunbird Effigy's power and toughness are each equal to the number of colors among the exiled cards used to craft it. {T}: For each color among the exiled cards used to craft this creature, add one mana of that color.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- November 10, 2023
You may exile tokens you control as part of the materials required. However, because they aren't cards and won't stay in exile, any abilities that refer to what you "used to craft" the back faces won't refer to anything.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
If the materials required include multiple objects, you may exile some of them from among permanents you control and the rest from among cards in your graveyard. You don't have to choose all permanents or all cards from your graveyard.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
If a card that isn't a transforming double-faced card becomes a copy of a card with craft, it'll stay in exile if you activate the craft ability. It won't return to the battlefield.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
The back faces of some cards with craft refer to cards "used to craft" it. This refers to the cards exiled as part of the cost of the craft ability of the front face. Those cards are considered to be "used to craft" that permanent as long as they remain exiled and the permanent remains on the battlefield, even if the permanent's controller changes or some of its characteristics change (because of a copy effect, for example.)
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
The five colors are white, blue, black, red, and green, and as such, Sunbird Effigy's characteristic-defining ability can't set its power and toughness higher than 5/5. Similarly, Sunbird Effigy's last ability can produce at most five mana (one of each of color).
Source: wotc
Price History
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