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Throne of the Grim Captain // The Grim Captain
Card Information
Type (Front): Legendary Artifact
Type (Back): Legendary Creature — Skeleton Spirit Pirate
Mana Cost (Front): 2
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity: 
Set: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 266
Oracle Text
Throne of the Grim Captain
{T}: Mill two cards. Craft with a Dinosaur, a Merfolk, a Pirate, and a Vampire {4} ({4}, Exile this artifact, Exile the four from among permanents you control and/or cards in your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)
The Grim Captain
Menace, trample, lifelink, hexproof Whenever The Grim Captain attacks, each opponent sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice. Then you may put an exiled creature card used to craft The Grim Captain onto the battlefield under your control tapped and attacking.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- 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
Although the creature card you put onto the battlefield is an attacking creature, it was never declared as an attacking creature. This means that abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks won't trigger when it enters the battlefield attacking.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
The Dinosaur, Merfolk, Pirate, and Vampire exiled to pay Throne of the Grim Captain's craft cost need to be separate objects. One creature with changeling is not enough.
Source: wotc - 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 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
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
You choose which player, planeswalker, or battle the creature you put onto the battlefield is attacking as it enters the battlefield. It doesn't have to be the same player, planeswalker, or battle that The Grim Captain is attacking.
Source: wotc
Price History
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