Ruxa, Patient Professor

Ruxa, Patient Professor

Legendary Creature — Bear Druid

Mana cost: {2}{G}{G}

How we read this card

Whenever Ruxa enters or attacks, return target creature card with no abilities from your graveyard to your hand.

triggered — brings a card back

triggered — brings a card back

Creatures you control with no abilities get +1/+1.

static — gives +1/+1

For each creature you control with no abilities, you may have that creature assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.

What a deck led by this card wants

Causes: a creature leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: a creature in a graveyard, a creature it boosts.

Works well with

a Bear enters the battlefield — 128 cards in the game can cause this (Ruxa is one).

  1. Ayula, Queen Among Bears — When Ruxa, Patient Professor enters, Ayula, Queen Among Bears triggers

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Ruxa is one).

When Ruxa, Patient Professor leaves a graveyard:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Erebos's Titan — triggers

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

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Ruxa is one).

When Ruxa, Patient Professor leaves a graveyard:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

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

put a creature into a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Gurzigost — Gurzigost puts cards into the graveyard that Ruxa, Patient Professor can bring back
  2. Altar of Dementia — Altar of Dementia puts cards into the graveyard that Ruxa, Patient Professor can bring back
  3. Greater Good — Greater Good puts cards into the graveyard that Ruxa, Patient Professor can bring back
  4. Fallow Wurm — Fallow Wurm puts cards into the graveyard that Ruxa, Patient Professor can bring back
  5. Thundering Wurm — Thundering Wurm puts cards into the graveyard that Ruxa, Patient Professor can bring back
  6. The Echoverse Fulcrum — The Echoverse Fulcrum puts cards into the graveyard that Ruxa, Patient Professor can bring back

2,763 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Ruxa is one).

When Ruxa, Patient Professor attacks:

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — deals 1 damage
  2. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — draws you 1 card
  3. Grim Javelineer — gives +1/+0
  4. Invisible Woman — triggers
  5. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — sacrifices a creature
  6. Guide of Souls — triggers
  7. Campsite Cuisine — sacrifices a Food
  8. Gossip's Talent — triggers
  9. Banon, the Returners' Leader — draws and discards
  10. Toph, Earthbending Master — puts a counter on a permanent

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

a creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Ruxa is one).

When Ruxa, Patient Professor attacks:

  1. Adaptive Omnitool — searches a library
  2. Anthem of Rakdos — gives +2/+0
  3. Kindred Discovery — draws you 1 card
  4. Invasion of New Capenna // Holy Frazzle-Cannon — puts counters on a permanent
  5. Chorale of the Void — brings a card back
  6. Jolene, Plundering Pugilist — makes a token
  7. Saw — sacrifices a creature
  8. Gisa's Favorite Shovel — makes an opponent sacrifice a creature
  9. Ultima Weapon — kills a creature an opponent controls
  10. Total War — kills a creature

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

a creature blocks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Ruxa is one).

When Ruxa, Patient Professor blocks:

  1. Mage Hunters' Onslaught — makes a player lose 1 life
  2. Carnage Gladiator — makes a player lose 1 life
  3. Barrow-Blade — strips abilities
  4. Tide of War — sacrifices a creature
  5. Dead-Iron Sledge — kills a creature
  6. Dwindle — kills a creature
  7. Shield of the Righteous — triggers

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

a nontoken creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Ruxa is one).

When Ruxa, Patient Professor attacks:

  1. Mardu Ascendancy — makes a token
  2. Basri Ket — makes a token
  3. Militia's Pride — makes a token

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (Ruxa is one).

When Ruxa, Patient Professor enters:

  1. Slash, Reptile Rampager — deals 2 damage
  2. Gimli of the Glittering Caves — puts counters on a permanent
  3. Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior — puts a counter on itself
  4. Legolas Greenleaf — puts a counter on a permanent
  5. The Neutrinos — gets +1/+0
  6. Wingnut, Bat on the Belfry — grants flying, haste and menace
  7. Aetherstorm Roc — puts a counter on a permanent you control
  8. Raphael, Most Attitude — exiles a card from your library

3,028 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything enters the battlefield — 26,499 cards in the game can cause this.

When Ruxa, Patient Professor:

  1. Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle — enters, Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Birthing Ritual — enters thanks to Birthing Ritual, it brings a card back
  3. Whisperwood Elemental — enters thanks to Whisperwood Elemental, it brings a card back
  4. Behemoth's Herald — enters thanks to Behemoth's Herald, it brings a card back
  5. Birthing Pod — enters thanks to Birthing Pod, it brings a card back
  6. Pyre of Heroes — enters thanks to Pyre of Heroes, it brings a card back
  7. Eldritch Evolution — enters thanks to Eldritch Evolution, it brings a card back
  8. Natural Order — enters thanks to Natural Order, it brings a card back
  9. Magus of the Order — enters thanks to Magus of the Order, it brings a card back
  10. Troop of Ponies — enters thanks to Troop of Ponies, it brings a card back

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