Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Legendary Planeswalker — Elspeth

Mana cost: {4}{W}{W}

How we read this card

Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

activated +1 — makes 3 tokens

Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater.

activated −3 —

You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have flying."

activated −7 — gets an emblem

Causes: create a Soldier creature token, put a Soldier creature token onto the battlefield, a creature dies.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a planeswalker it grants abilities to — 312 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Way of the Healer — Way of the Healer gives Elspeth, Sun's Champion an extra ability
  2. Deification — Deification gives Elspeth, Sun's Champion hexproof

310 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a planeswalker is cast — 361 cards in the game can cause this (Elspeth is one).

When Elspeth, Sun's Champion is cast:

  1. Jaya's Phoenix — returns itself from the graveyard
  2. Interplanar Beacon — gains you 1 life
  3. Defiler of Faith — makes a token
  4. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  5. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  6. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  7. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  8. Summon: Good King Mog XII — makes a token
  9. Kykar, Wind's Fury — makes a token
  10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

239 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a planeswalker enters the battlefield — 366 cards in the game can cause this (Elspeth is one).

  1. Liliana the Repentant — When a Soldier enters thanks to Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Liliana the Repentant mills a card
  2. Liliana the Faultless — When a Soldier enters thanks to Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Liliana the Faultless gains you 1 life
  3. Builder's Talent — When Elspeth, Sun's Champion enters, Builder's Talent puts a counter on a creature
  4. Brainstealer Dragon — When a Soldier enters thanks to Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Brainstealer Dragon makes a player lose life equal to its mana value
  5. Cloudstone Curio — When a Soldier enters thanks to Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Cloudstone Curio triggers

a Soldier creature enters the battlefield — 1,279 cards in the game can cause this (Elspeth is one).

  1. Veteran's Armaments — When a Soldier enters thanks to Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Veteran's Armaments triggers

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Elspeth is one).

Elspeth, Sun's Champion puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — can bring back
  2. Havengul Lich — can bring back
  3. Paleoloth — can bring back
  4. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring back
  5. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring back
  6. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring back
  7. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring back
  8. Necromantic Thirst — can bring back
  9. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — can bring back
  10. Ruthless Technomancer — can bring back

799 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Elspeth is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Elspeth, Sun's Champion:

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — makes a token
  2. Vraska, the Silencer — brings a card back
  3. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel — brings a card back
  4. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  5. Yedora, Grave Gardener — brings a card back
  6. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  7. Valkyrie's Call — brings a card back
  8. Decaying Soil — brings a card back
  9. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  10. Overseer of the Damned — makes a token

60 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature leaves the battlefield — 4,238 cards in the game can cause this (Elspeth is one).

  1. Ninja Teen — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Ninja Teen makes each opponent lose 1 life

31 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Elspeth is one).

  1. Havi, the All-Father — Elspeth, Sun's Champion fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs

443 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.