Xanathar, Guild Kingpin

Xanathar, Guild Kingpin

Legendary Creature — Beholder

Mana cost: {4}{U}{B}

How we read this card

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose target opponent. Until end of turn, that player can't cast spells, you may look at the top card of their library any time, you may play the top card of their library, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast spells this way.

triggered — taxes the table

What a deck led by this card wants

Causes: nothing.

Cares about: an upkeep.

Works well with

hits creature — 2,298 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Jalira, Master Polymorphist — Jalira, Master Polymorphist can put Xanathar, Guild Kingpin onto the battlefield from your library
  2. Polymorph — Polymorph can put Xanathar, Guild Kingpin onto the battlefield from your library
  3. Birthing Ritual — Birthing Ritual can put Xanathar, Guild Kingpin onto the battlefield from your library
  4. Industrial Advancement — Industrial Advancement can put Xanathar, Guild Kingpin onto the battlefield from your library
  5. Killer Instinct — Killer Instinct can put Xanathar, Guild Kingpin onto the battlefield from your library
  6. Arthur, Marigold Knight — Arthur, Marigold Knight can put Xanathar, Guild Kingpin onto the battlefield from your library
  7. Proteus Staff — Proteus Staff can put Xanathar, Guild Kingpin onto the battlefield from your library
  8. Synthetic Destiny — Synthetic Destiny can put Xanathar, Guild Kingpin onto the battlefield from your library
  9. Divergent Transformations — Divergent Transformations can put Xanathar, Guild Kingpin onto the battlefield from your library
  10. Transmogrify — Transmogrify can put Xanathar, Guild Kingpin onto the battlefield from your library
  11. Mass Polymorph — Mass Polymorph can put Xanathar, Guild Kingpin onto the battlefield from your library

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

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

When Xanathar, Guild Kingpin 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

111 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 (Xanathar is one).

When Xanathar, Guild Kingpin 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

181 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 (Xanathar is one).

When Xanathar, Guild Kingpin 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. Heat of Battle — deals 1 damage
  5. Battle Strain — deals 1 damage
  6. Favor of the Woods — gains you 3 life
  7. Tide of War — sacrifices a creature
  8. Dead-Iron Sledge — kills a creature
  9. Dwindle — kills a creature
  10. Shield of the Righteous — triggers

18 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 (Xanathar is one).

When Xanathar, Guild Kingpin attacks:

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

a creature deals combat damage — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Xanathar is one).

When Xanathar, Guild Kingpin deals combat damage:

  1. Locutus of Borg — makes a token
  2. Antagonist Incorporator — makes a token
  3. Hive Mind Coprocessor — makes you lose life

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

a creature is cast — 18,010 cards in the game can cause this (Xanathar is one).

When Xanathar, Guild Kingpin is cast:

  1. Primeval Bounty — makes a token
  2. Bloodbond March — brings a card back
  3. Dancing from Dark to Dawn — puts that spell's mana value counters on a creature
  4. Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder — makes that spell's mana value tokens
  5. Summon: Fenrir — it arrives with counters thanks to Summon: Fenrir

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

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

When Xanathar, Guild Kingpin 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

297 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 (Xanathar is one).

  1. Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle — When Xanathar, Guild Kingpin enters, Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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