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Ephara, God of the Polis

{2}{W}{U}

Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

SLDSecret Lair Drop#72mythic
ShowcaseFull ArtFoil
Border
black
Security stamp
oval
Frame
2015 · Full art
Pull rate
about 1 per booster
Illustrator
Jason A. Engle
Found in
Secret Lair Drop Theros Stargazing Vol II Thassa
Printings3
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
Indestructible As long as your devotion to white and blue is less than seven, Ephara isn't a creature. At the beginning of each upkeep, if you had another creature enter the battlefield under your control last turn, draw a card.
6/5
Indestructible

Plays as: Card Draw · Devotion Payoff

Market · per finishspark updated 15h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Foil-0.5%
$17.32
$12.59 low$5.34 gap
Cheapest playable copy$16.56· across 3 printings

Rulings

16 · latest Jan 24, 2020 · one tap opens all
  • WotCJan 24, 2020

    As a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color will determine whether any replacement effects that affect creatures entering the battlefield apply to that God. Because replacement effects are considered before the God is on the battlefield, the mana symbols in its mana cost won't be counted when determining this.

  • WotCJan 24, 2020

    Counters put on a God remain on it while it's not a creature, even if they have no effect.

  • WotCJan 24, 2020

    If a God is attacking or blocking and it stops being a creature, it will be removed from combat. It won't rejoin combat if it resumes being a creature later during that combat.

  • WotCJan 24, 2020

    If a God stops being a creature, it loses the type creature and the creature type God. It continues to be a legendary enchantment.

  • WotCJan 24, 2020

    If an effect causes a God to lose all abilities, its ability that causes it to stop being a creature still applies if appropriate.

  • WotCJan 24, 2020

    The abilities of Gods function as long as they're on the battlefield, regardless of whether they're creatures.

  • WotCJan 24, 2020

    The type-changing ability that can make a God not be a creature functions only on the battlefield. It's always a creature card in other zones, regardless of your devotion to its color. It's always a creature spell while it's on the stack.

  • WotCJan 24, 2020

    When a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color (including the mana symbols in the mana cost of the God itself) will determine if a creature entered the battlefield or not for abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield.

  • WotCJan 24, 2020

    Your devotion to two colors is the number of mana symbols among mana costs of permanents you control that are the first color, the second, or both. If an effect counts your devotion to two colors, a hybrid symbol that is both of those colors is counted just once.

  • WotCFeb 1, 2014

    Ephara's last ability checks at the beginning of each upkeep whether another creature entered the battlefield under your control last turn. If one did, it will trigger; otherwise, it won't. The ability will trigger only once no matter how many creatures entered the battlefield under your control that turn, as long as at least one did.

  • WotCFeb 1, 2014

    If a noncreature permanent you control (such as an Aura with bestow) becomes a creature, it will not cause Ephara's last ability to trigger the following turn. This is true even if that noncreature permanent became a creature the same turn it entered the battlefield.

  • WotCFeb 1, 2014

    The last ability will trigger regardless of what has happened to the creature that entered the battlefield on the previous turn. It doesn't matter whether it's still under your control or whether it's still on the battlefield.

  • WotCSep 15, 2013

    Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).

  • WotCSep 15, 2013

    If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it's still on the battlefield at that time.

  • WotCSep 15, 2013

    Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.

  • WotCSep 15, 2013

    Numeric mana symbols ({0}, {1}, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.