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Mishra, Claimed by Gix

{2}{B}{R}

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Human Artificer

BROThe Brothers' War#216mythic
Foil
Border
black
Security stamp
oval
Frame
2015
Pull rate
about 1 per booster–1 in 5980
Illustrator
Chris Rahn
Found in
The Brothers War MTGO Redemption Foil · The Brothers War MTGO Redemption · 3 more
Printings2
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlLegal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorLegal
HistoricLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyLegal
PioneerLegal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessLegal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageLegal
Whenever you attack, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of attacking creatures. If Mishra, Claimed by Gix and a creature named Phyrexian Dragon Engine are attacking, and you both own and control them, exile them, then meld them into Mishra, Lost to Phyrexia. It enters tapped and attacking.
3/5

Plays as: Attack Trigger · Damage Win

Market · per finishspark updated 23h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil-3.0%
$5.82
$4.50 low$1.10 gap
Foil-0.6%
$6.32
$5.20 low-$0.80 gap
Cheapest playable copy$6.32· across 2 printings

Rulings

16 · latest Oct 14, 2022 · one tap opens all
  • WotCOct 14, 2022

    A player prompted to name a card may name the combined back face, and each player has the right to know that combined back face's characteristics at all times.

  • WotCOct 14, 2022

    Although all the cards in The Brothers' War that create Powerstone tokens create a tapped Powerstone token, entering the battlefield tapped isn't part of the token's definition. Notably, if you create a token that is a copy of a Powerstone token, the token copy won't enter the battlefield tapped.

  • WotCOct 14, 2022

    If an effect moves a melded permanent to a new zone and then affects "that card," it affects both cards.

  • WotCOct 14, 2022

    In the Commander variant, a meld card's color identity is determined only by the mana costs and mana symbols in the rules text of its front face. No symbols or rules text of the permanent it melds into are considered.

  • WotCOct 14, 2022

    Mishra, Lost to Phyrexia enters the battlefield tapped and attacking, but since it wasn't declared as an attacker, no abilities that trigger when a creature attacks will trigger.

  • WotCOct 14, 2022

    Note that the permanent represented by the combined back faces has a color indicator.

  • WotCOct 14, 2022

    One card in each pair of meld cards has an ability that instructs you to exile the two cards and meld them. If you control more than one object with one of those names, you select one object with that name to exile.

  • WotCOct 14, 2022

    Only two cards belonging to the same meld pair can be melded. Tokens, cards that aren't meld cards, or meld cards that don't form a meld pair can't be melded. If an effect instructs a player to meld cards that can't be melded, those cards remain in exile.

  • WotCOct 14, 2022

    Powerstone tokens are a kind of predefined token. Each one has the artifact subtype "Powerstone" and the ability "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell."

  • WotCOct 14, 2022

    The mana value of a melded permanent is the sum of the mana values of its front faces. A creature that becomes a copy of a melded permanent has only the characteristics of that combined back face, and its mana value is 0.

  • WotCOct 14, 2022

    When a pair of cards are melded, the result is a single creature that's represented by two cards. If the melded creature dies, both cards are put into your graveyard. As it leaves the battlefield, both of those cards are turned face up again. If the cards are put on the top or bottom of your library, you choose their relative order.

  • WotCOct 14, 2022

    When two cards are exiled and melded, they each leave the battlefield, then return together as one new object with no relation to either of the objects that left the battlefield. Counters, Auras, Equipment, and other effects that affected those two cards don't affect the melded permanent.

  • WotCOct 14, 2022

    While a meld card is in any zone other than the battlefield, it has only the characteristics of its front face. The same is true while it's on the battlefield with its front face up.

  • WotCOct 14, 2022

    While a melded permanent is on the battlefield, it has only the characteristics of its combined back face. Any effects that modify how the new object enters the battlefield will consider only the combined back face.

  • WotCOct 14, 2022

    You can use the {C} added by a Powerstone token on anything that isn't a nonartifact spell. This includes paying costs to activate abilities of both artifact and nonartifact permanents, paying ward costs, and so on.

  • WotCOct 14, 2022

    You choose which player or planeswalker Mishra, Lost to Phyrexia is attacking as it enters the battlefield.