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Ascendant Spirit

{U}

Snow Creature — Spirit

KHMKaldheim#43rare
Finishes
Nonfoil · Foil
Border
black
Security stamp
oval
Frame
2015
Pull rate
about 1 per booster–1 in 1480
Illustrator
Lie Setiawan
Found in
Kaldheim MTGO Redemption · Kaldheim MTGO Redemption Foil · 5 more
Printings5Combos4EDHREC rank#11,980
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality

Constructed

StandardNot legal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperNot legal

Commander

CommanderLegal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
Duel CommanderLegal
PreDHNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Tiny LeadersLegal

Arena

AlchemyNot legal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
BrawlLegal
Standard BrawlNot legal
Competitive BrawlLegal
GladiatorLegal

Other

PremodernNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulLegal
Future StandardNot legal
{S}{S}: This creature becomes a Spirit Warrior with base power and toughness 2/3. {S}{S}{S}: If this creature is a Warrior, put a flying counter on it and it becomes a Spirit Warrior Angel with base power and toughness 4/4. {S}{S}{S}{S}: If this creature is an Angel, put two +1/+1 counters on it and it gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
1/1
Plays as:
Card DrawCombat Damage Trigger
Market · per finishspark updated 24h ago · prices as of 2026-08-29
Nonfoil+3.0%
$0.34
$0.05 low$0.02 gapTCGplayer
Foil-9.1%
$0.30
$0.17 low$0.09 gapTCGplayer
Cheapest playable copy$0.30· across 5 printings· you're viewing it

Rulings

11 · latest Feb 5, 2021
  • WotCFeb 5, 2021

    Activating the second ability after Ascendant Spirit has already been legally blocked by a creature without flying or reach won't change or undo that block.

  • WotCFeb 5, 2021

    Any effects that modify Ascendant Spirit's power or toughness without setting it to a specific value will apply after its base power and toughness are set, regardless of the order in which those effects were created. The same is true of counters that modify its power and toughness.

  • WotCFeb 5, 2021

    Any of Ascendant Spirit's abilities may be activated repeatedly. Multiple flying counters on the same permanent provide no additional benefit; however, each time the last ability resolves while Ascendant Spirit is an Angel will give Ascendant Spirit two more +1/+1 counters and cause it to gain another instance of the triggered ability. All of those instances trigger separately.

  • WotCFeb 5, 2021

    None of Ascendant Spirit's abilities has a duration. If one of them resolves, it will remain in effect until Ascendant Spirit leaves the battlefield or a subsequent effect changes its characteristics.

  • WotCFeb 5, 2021

    Snow is a supertype, not a card type. It has no rules meaning or function by itself, but spells and abilities may refer to it.

  • WotCFeb 5, 2021

    Snow isn't a type of mana. If an effect says you may spend mana as though it were any type, you can't pay for {S} using mana that wasn't produced by a snow source.

  • WotCFeb 5, 2021

    Some cards have additional effects for each {S} spent to cast them. You can cast these spells even if you don't spend any snow mana to cast them; their additional effects simply won't do anything.

  • WotCFeb 5, 2021

    The Kaldheim set doesn't have any cards with mana costs that include {S}, but some previous sets do. If an effect says such a spell costs {1} less to cast, that reduction doesn't apply to any {S} costs. This is also true for activated abilities that include {S} in their activation costs and effects that reduce those costs.

  • WotCFeb 5, 2021

    The first and second abilities cause Ascendant Spirit to lose any other creature types it may have. It retains any card types or supertypes it may have.

  • WotCFeb 5, 2021

    The first and second abilities overwrite any previous effects that set Ascendant Spirit's base power and toughness to specific values. Any effects that set Ascendant Spirit's base power and toughness that start to apply after one of these abilities will override the effect of that ability.

  • WotCFeb 5, 2021

    The {S} symbol is a generic mana symbol. It represents a cost that can be paid by one mana that was produced by a snow source. That mana can be any color or colorless.