Reflector Mage and Teferi, Time Raveler are highly oppressive to creatures that leave nothing behind when bounced or require an investment of some kind. Yorion forces that perspective to change - there are barely enough good white cards in Pioneer for a 60-card deck, let alone an 80-card one - but also offers an appealing incentive to splash other colors. A consensus soon arose that the blue splash wasn’t worth sacrificing a much cleaner manabase in a format where allied colors can only dream of having the same fixing as their enemies. When Heliod, Sun-Crowned was first previewed, similar Azorius shells were an obvious starting point for the combo with Walking Ballista. Your companion is not one of your one hundred cards.Mono-White Devotion rose to prominence as a foil to Dimir Inverter but only a single copy of the format’s former menace made the Top 32 of this tournament - the success of this Azorius variation shows that the strategy still has legs (wings?) when the main target is different. Your deck, including your commander, must meet its companion requirement. You may have one companion in the Commander variant. For example, Zirda may be in your starting deck even if your other permanent cards don’t all have activated abilities. The companion ability has no effect if the card is in your starting deck and creates no restriction on putting a card with a companion ability into your starting deck. They have no effect while the companion is outside the game.

The companion’s other abilities apply only if the creature is on the battlefield. Once a player has chosen not to reveal a companion, that player can’t change their mind. If more than one player wishes to reveal a companion, the starting player does so first, and players proceed in turn order. The requirements of the companion ability apply only to your starting deck. It remains revealed outside the game as the game begins. In casual play, it’s simply a card you own that’s not in your starting deck.īefore shuffling your deck to become your library, you may reveal one card from outside the game to be your companion if your starting deck meets the requirements of the companion ability. In tournament play, this means your sideboard. Your companion begins the game outside the game. If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won’t return to the battlefield.

Once the exiled permanents return, they’re considered new objects with no relation to the objects that they were. Any counters on the exiled permanents will cease to exist. Equipment attached to the exiled permanents will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. You can’t exile permanents you control but don’t own, or permanents that you own but don’t control.Īuras attached to the exiled permanents will be put into their owners’ graveyards. No player may take action between the time you choose the permanents and the time they’re exiled. You choose which permanents to exile as Yorion’s triggered ability resolves. The Commander variant requires exactly one hundred cards, so Yorion can never be your chosen companion in a Commander game. Certain variants may have other minimums. Your minimum deck size is forty cards for Limited events (such as Booster Draft and Sealed Deck) and sixty cards for Constructed events (such as Standard or casual freeform play). Once you take this action, you may cast that card if it’s legal to do so before any other player can take actions. It doesn’t use the stack and players can’t respond to it. Paying to put your companion into your hand is a special action. For example, if it’s discard, countered, or destroyed, it’s put into your graveyard, remaining in the game. Once you do, you put it into your hand and behaves like any other card you’ve brought into the game. If you reveal a companion outside the game, for as long as it remains there, you may pay any time you could cast a sorcery (that is, you have priority during your main phase and the stack is empty).

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