If you control a creature with power less than 0, use its actual power when calculating the total power of creatures you control. For example, if you control three creatures with powers 4, 5, and -2, the total power of creatures you control is 7.
For a player’s life total to become a specific number, the player gains or loses the appropriate amount of life. For example, if a player’s life total is 12 and that player controls three creatures as the ability resolves, they will lose 9 life. Other effects that interact with life gain or loss will interact with this effect accordingly.
The mana produced by Shaman of Forgotten Ways can be used to cast face-down creature spells with morph or megamorph.
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This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from DTK — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #204 of *Dragons of Tarkir*, the set that shipped alongside the March 2015 Dragons of Tarkir release.
Card type: Creature — Human Shaman, color identity green, printed at mythic. Mythic rares historically land in roughly one out of every eight boosters at standard print densities. Mana cost: {2}{G} (3 converted). Keyword abilities: Formidable.
Legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
EDHrec ranks this card #6,410 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Tyler Jacobson. Rarix catalogs 541 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Tyler Jacobson
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Count the number of creatures each player controls when the last ability resolves to determine what number each player’s life total will become.
Other formidable abilities are triggered abilities with an “intervening ‘if’” clause. Such abilities check the total power of creatures you control twice: once at the appropriate time to see if the ability will trigger, and again as the ability tries to resolve. If, at that time, the total power of creatures you control is no longer 8 or greater, the ability will have no effect.
Some formidable abilities are activated abilities that require creatures you control to have total power 8 or greater. Once you activate these abilities, it doesn’t matter what happens to the total power of creatures you control.
The first ability of Shaman of Forgotten Ways is a mana ability. It doesn’t use the stack and can’t be responded to.
If a player controls no creatures as the last ability resolves, their life total will become 0, causing that player to lose the game. If all players’ life totals become 0 this way, the game will be a draw.
