Chea, Friend to Maybe Too Many
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
- Border
- black
- Frame
- 2015
- Pull rate
- ~1 in 120
- Illustrator
- Stephanie Bouchard
- Found in
- Mystery Booster 2 Booster Pack
: Add X and each opponent loses X life, where X is the number of familiars you control.Plays as: Damage Win
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Rulings
5 · latest Nov 8, 2024 · one tap opens all
- WotCNov 8, 2024
Chea’s last ability is a mana ability. It doesn’t use the stack and can’t be responded to.
- WotCNov 8, 2024
For many playtest cards, you’ll need to make a generous assumption that basic game rules would be updated to allow them to work. The Mystery Booster 2 Playtest Card Notes section (reproduced here in individual Gatherer rulings) provides guidance for fitting these cards into the existing rules structure.
- WotCNov 8, 2024
I’m not sure what wizard would want Lazav, Familiar Stranger as their familiar, but to each their own. (I would pick Owl Familiar, personally.)
- WotCNov 8, 2024
Playtest cards aren’t legal for play in any tournament format other than Mystery Booster Limited formats. On the other hand, we expect they will spice up a wide variety of non-tournament games (as long as everyone’s on the same page about using them!).
- WotCNov 8, 2024
Playtest cards use a modified version of game symbols, such as
and . These modified symbols should be treated as the standard symbols during play.