Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel

c20Commander 2020#19mythic
{2}{G}{W}
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Card text & rulings

Oracle text

Legendary Creature — Hyena Beast

Partner with Nikara, Lair Scavenger

Vigilance

When Yannik enters, exile another creature you control until Yannik leaves the battlefield. When you do, distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures, where X is the exiled creature's power.

P/T3/3
Ability breakdown
Abilities
Vigilance
StaticPartner with Nikara, Lair Scavenger
TriggeredWhen Yannik enters, exile another creature you control until Yannik leaves the battlefield. When you do, distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures, where X is the exiled creature's power.
Rulings
  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    Auras attached to the exiled creature will be put into their owners' graveyards. Any Equipment will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled creature will cease to exist. When the card returns to the battlefield, it will be a new object with no connection to the card that was exiled.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    If Yannik leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, you won't exile any creature you control. Yannik's reflexive triggered ability won't trigger.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won't return to the battlefield. It will still let the ability distribute counters.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    If one of the target creatures becomes an illegal target in response to the reflexive triggered ability, the +1/+1 counters that would have been put on that creature are lost. They can't be put on another legal target.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    Use the power of the creature as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how many +1/+1 counters to distribute.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    Yannik can be the target of its own reflexive triggered ability.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    Yannik's triggered ability doesn't target the creature you control. That creature is chosen as the triggered ability resolves. After it's exiled, the reflexive triggered ability triggers and targets are chosen to receive the counters.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    You choose how the counters will be distributed as you put the reflexive triggered ability onto the stack. Each target creature must be assigned at least one counter.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    You may choose zero target creatures for Yannik's reflexive triggered ability. If you do, no creature receives +1/+1 counters.

Market & version spread

Why you'd run this

Plays as
Counter Placer

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Flavor & art
Illustrated by
Grzegorz Rutkowski
Where you can play it
commander
Legal to play
All formats
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
competitivebrawlNot legal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyNot legal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageLegal

Physical object & links

Card details
Artist
Grzegorz Rutkowski
Frame
legendary
Language
EN
Border
black
Security stamp
oval