Can Etrata the Silencer be a commander?

If Etrata, the Silencer is a Commander, its owner can put it into command zone instead of shuffling into the library. Anyway, shuffling a library is mandatory. Creature that became a target of Etrata can be someone’s Commander as well. In this case, its owner can decide to exile it or move to command zone.

Can you flicker Etrata?

You don’t flicker her during cleanup, you flicker her as a response to her own trigger. After that resolves, her ability is still on the stack, but she is not on the battlefield, so the ability will resolve as much as it can until it gets to the part where it shuffles her and finds no legal target.

Can you ninjutsu Etrata?

Attack with Etrata, Etrata deals damage to the opponent and her trigger goes on the stack, with Etrata’s trigger on the stack you activate Ninjutsu (since you’re still in combat and Etrata is still “attacking”), Etrata goes to your hand and the ninja goes into play in her place.

Can you Ninjutsu Etrata?

Can you blink your commander?

Blink abilities can get your Commander back because it’s in the zone that it went to (Command Zone, replacing Exile). It didn’t *change* zones, which is when an ability loses track, it just went to a different one than the ability expected–but so long as it’s wherever it went, it will come back.

Can you ninjutsu from the command zone?

Commander ninjutsu is a variant of ninjutsu that can be activated from the command zone as well as from your hand. Just as with regular ninjutsu, the Ninja enters attacking the player or planeswalker that the returned creature was attacking.

Can you ninjutsu after damage?

You can even ninjutsu out your ninja after regular combat damage has been dealt. So either you ninjitsu out your creature after blockers are declared, and you get a first strike step, or you wait, which means the game goes straight to the regular damage step, where the unblocked attacking creature deals its damage.

How does flicker work MTG?

“Flickering” removes all counters and auras from a creature, and makes it dodge targeted removal if a spell “flickering” that creature is played in response to the removal spell targeting it.

Can you activate ninjutsu after damage?

The creature with ninjutsu is put onto the battlefield unblocked. It will be attacking the same player or planeswalker as the creature that was returned to its owner’s hand. You can even ninjutsu out your ninja after regular combat damage has been dealt.

Does commander tax add to ninjutsu?

Activating Yuriko’s commander ninjutsu ability isn’t the same as casting Yuriko as a spell. You won’t have to pay the commander tax to activate that ability, and activating that ability won’t increase the commander tax to pay later.

When do you lose the game with Commander?

In addition to the rest of the state-based actions that we have in most Magic games, Commander has an additional one: if, over the course of the game, you have been dealt 21 or more points of combat damage from the same commander, you will lose the game. Note the word ‘combat’.

When does commander damage count as combat damage?

That means only damage assigned and dealt by an attacking commander at the beginning of the combat damage step counts. Abilities never deal combat damage, even if you use them during combat. So while Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind might be a powerful commander, its triggered ability is not considered combat…

Can a Commander die in the command zone?

Yes, commanders can trigger “dies” triggers as they head to the command zone This new rules change was announced on June 7, 2020 and became active in the Commander rules circa the release date of Core Set 2021. I’ll explain the rules basis later, but to summarise the new rules:

Is the Firemind trigger counted as combat damage?

So while Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind might be a powerful commander, its triggered ability is not considered combat damage, so that trigger won’t count towards that 21 points of damage.