This Commander is Broken! | Trazyn the Infinite | Warhammer 40K Spoilers | Magic the Gathering

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[@BobbyB1263]

This video has been added to Trazyn's collection

[@natankende4973]

Good one

[@feeglsnorf]

Placed right next to the toaster

[@Nightheart973]

Goated comment

[@jonibarra22]

I imagine an infinite time loop of this video being recorded lmao.

[@ewanbrothers2953]

True

[@Godzillafan-tv1ks]

To my fellow 40k fans. Trazyn has a black Lotus in his collection

[@manupontheprecipice6254]

A fine addition to his collection.

[@micheal5973]

“Step this way to my hall of lotuses, lotusi? Well nevermind we’ll also stop at my ikoria godzilla collection hall that I’m in the process of finishing to…”end”… our tour on.” -trazyn

[@rashakor]

@@micheal5973 Loti

[@jonibarra22]

He probably calls it a “quaint trinket the primitive humans thought was powerful.”

[@InvisibleYogurt]

probably the very 1st one printed

[@markomalmi7989]

Lore bit of Trazyn: He is the pokemon-collector of the 42nd millenium. He has titans, planets, people, specimen of extinct species, specific MOMENTS entrapped and/or stored in his library of unlimited possibilities. It is said that only the Imperial storages under the Emperor's golden throne can even rival the majesty, horror and glory this being has collected. Also he is a fucking meme, which means he is loved and adored by both fans and Belisarius Cawl. If someone could get in without Trazyn noticing them, they would have possible access to galaxy-ending gear and technology, which Trazyn only has because they are trophies for him. This intel was shared with permission from Ordo Xeno's inquisitor, to make sure you know what to do if you ever find youself captured by this kleptomaniac badass. Praised be the Omnissiah

[@dapperdood583]

Building a deck around him, gotta say he truly is Infinite. 1. Infinite mana🌈 2. Infinite mill.💧 3. Infinite burn. 🔥 4. Infinite life gain.☀️ 5. Infinite poison 💀 6. Infinite growth 🌳 6. Infinite squirrels.🪦🪦🪦

[@Arcdemon44]

Mirage mirror in the grave gives Trazyn a very nice way to protect itself by turning into a land or something else to dodge removal.

[@jjcc8379]

He turned himself into a land! Funniest s**t i've ever heard! It's Land Trazyn!

[@luketargett2233]

@@jjcc8379 I was thinking along those lines too, would be great to use at the table

[@andrewjervis4551]

@@jjcc8379 its on theme somewhat. Like going to sleep deep under the earth for millenia :P

[@chaosnight2006]

lol you can also include a card like blade of the oni, or leech gauntlet to give it 'Reconfigure' to protect it from creature removal.

[@astuteanansi4935]

@@chaosnight2006 The issue is I don't think you can deconfigure a reconfigured creature so he's stuck like this until the creature hits the yard

[@gydrah4244]

My fellow Necron fans, IT'S OUR BOY.

[@scottjutras2854]

truly the master cleptomaniac has arrived

[@manupontheprecipice6254]

It’s limited edition.

[@ireallycant4416]

It belongs to he museum I guess 😂

[@phaylnx]

Ah yes, the Primarch of the Blood Ravens!!!!! lol

[@jasonwhite3345]

If I had Two artifacts and one said tap to add TWO mana and the other one said tap to add three mana and they was in the grave if I used my commander could I tap in for five mana

[@trentonchurch4045]

Can’t forget thousand year elixir needs to be added to the list. If played gives some haste effect if not played but destroyed it gives the untap target creature effect

[@frodizle21]

damn thats good stuff

[@deanprowell7947]

Remember that almost *every creature* in the Necron precon is an Artifact Creature. And the deck is focused on sending cards to the graveyard and back again. That's a lot of abilities

[@RentarionCain]

Trazyn, the Infinite... is going infinite... who knew. lol regardless I'm am super excited to have my favorite Necron character as a ridiculously broken card which you can combo as well with Imotekh, the Stormlord to get the benefit of infinite necron tokens as well

[@alexthebird2756]

He does have the ham from order drago

[@dreamcatcherben8214]

ironic since Trazyn is banned from Imotekh's worlds because he (Trazyn) tried to steal his (Imotekh) staff.

[@darknova000]

Thank God he isn't blue

[@Explotato]

Finally! FINALLY! A real, honest to god, use for One with Nothing!

[@jonpeacock5580]

I thought he was going to get some ability that lets him come back from being destroyed or exiled, this is so much cooler. lets go necrons don't disappoint...(like the silent king)

[@chaosnight2006]

This card is insane, buuuut for flavor reasons I'd rather have an ability that involves stealing other players things. His whole thing is that he goes around taking whatever he finds interesting and throwing it into his gallery, which includes other peoples and their stuff lol.

[@cambabamba4159]

One With Nothing would also be good with this deck, putting your entire hand into your graveyard would add a handful of abilities to Trazyn in one move

[@cethapplegate594]

Good thinking finally some more use for that card.

[@alexthebird2756]

A little Rough today its "Tray" - " son" closure to Raison. He does have an impressive amount of stuff in his vaults including but not limited to many copies of Balanced Magic Expansions, the warhammer and all of the life paid to cast channel fireball.

[@jacksons9546]

In the 40K audiobooks it’s “trah-zinn” or “trazeen” for the more Egyptian sounding voices. Pronunciation seems to vary between games and other stuff

[@danpsyker6122]

@@jacksons9546 Yeah that's how it's said in all the audiobooks ive listened to and how I would personally say it too.

[@alexthebird2756]

@@jacksons9546 The infinite and divine is such a good book, you are correct though in the audio books and video games its closure to that. I think Wade and the GW staff say it closure to how I put it. good Call out though.

[@jacksons9546]

Men of culture here, nice lol. I think it’s safe to say we’re all hoping for smth cool for Orikan, but I doubt he can top Trazyn here Edit: no orikan and no deceiver! Orikan I can kinda understand but deceiver? Big loss.

[@alexthebird2756]

@@jacksons9546 Remember if we dont play nice a deathmark might shoot us :-p

[@brianbishop5322]

First up, there's Wayfarers Bauble.....

[@JochananWest]

Did you guys forget about Biotransference? The new Enchantment. You can go infinite in so many more ways than simply with artifacts. You can make stuff into artifacts in your graveyard and pop off in whatever way you want (restrictid to black and colorless of course). "Creatures you control are artifacts in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren’t on the battlefield." Last part is the important one.

[@darias128]

I was looking through comments to see if anyone else was gonna mention that idk why he didnt

[@coybackus7665]

i'm under the suspicion that the intention of the video is to highlight cards available to add to the precon, vs highlighting cards that are already in it. (particularly cards good to add to the precon with this being the commander, obviously)

[@ShikiRen]

The funny thing is that if you squint a bit, Triskelion kind of looks like a Necron Triarch Stalker.

[@SleepySlann]

They put several good combos into the deck he comes with. My favorite is out of the tombs, for how it changes the gamerules

[@roshiofficially4968]

Loved the video! I will try to create this deck, a bit with a budget in mined =)

[@mojomuffin1543]

This can also be done with necrotic ooze + sidisi, undead vizier, but that takes 11 mana and is 2 spells instead of 1

[@Hyxtrem]

If you seek to beat the crap out of your opponent instead, you can also use Crashing Drawbridge to gives Haste to your board. Pretty fun.

[@dicenter3932]

It just yelling "combo with me" on it's face

[@zombiemanjosh]

Great, now I gotta buy 3/4 of the precons. I was just gonna run Nids and Chaos, but now my boy Trazyn is here.

[@campbellsmith403]

Every video so far: “Most broken commander ever”

[@PraiseGodandJesus528]

I am not a fan of infinite combos but if I saw a deck with infinite infinite combos that would be dope!!🧙‍♂️🔮🤙

[@D-Boy22]

I do wonder what happens if you mill an equipment and use the equip ability targeting another creature, or even itself

[@WorldofSoupS]

How does the bottom test of Walking Ballista work with Trazyn? I thought it would only work with text that has tapping or mana cost?

[@caseymcvay4727]

immediately i'm thinking of mycosyth lattice

[@nikola25spasic]

This is CEDH good and has turn 1 wins but time will tell if consistent wins can be had within 3 turns. It looks like it could.

[@chrismythtime]

It’ll probably be one of the decks that has potential to hang at some cedh pods, but he has too many weak spots. Free and cheap counter magic will hit his tutors to prevent them from hitting play/grave. Cast him too early and he’ll probably be removed while your tutor is on the stack. Grave hate can hose his strategy as well as anything that hates artifact activated abilities due to him also having the unfortunate drawback of being an artifact creature himself. He’s a necrotic ooze in the command zone, sure. But a worse version of it because of his personal weak spots. In cedh though, anything is possible considering a chain veil teferi won some larger edh event fairly recently.

[@RobMedellin]

I want this. But in my meta it may just be slow. Still I may draft a deck and decide to go for it.

[@FrancoG0YA]

Also super good with Silas renn!!

[@themrenigma2956]

I have a question regarding the ballista: as it specifies that you put/remove counters from balista, does that still work? The commander doesn't copy the name. (I come from Yu-Gi-Oh where names matter :D )

[@DotHacker99]

Short answer it totally works. Long answer below. Here's the last part of the official rule for necrotic ooze which does the exact same thing except for creatures: "If an activated ability of a card in a graveyard references the card it’s printed on by name, treat Necrotic Ooze’s version of that ability as though it referenced Necrotic Ooze by name instead. For example, if Cudgel Troll (which says “{G}: Regenerate Cudgel Troll”) is in a graveyard, Necrotic Ooze has the ability “{G}: Regenerate Necrotic Ooze.”"

[@Dedalus94]

Unless he gets the same generous ruling that necrotic ooze got (see the 1/1/2011 ruling on the Gatherer entry) Trazyn is not "Walking Ballista", and so you cannot remove +1+1 counters from him with that effect, and cards in your graveyard cannot have counters. Same goes for devourer+triskelion, the 1 cost ability for staff of domination. I'm pretty sure Golem Artisan (or Lightning Greaves if you have it on field already), Palladium Myr + Pili-Pala for infinite mana, then retrofitter foundry for infinite thopters (which you then give haste with the golem) works without this errata/ruling. Also, don't forget about Morality Shift to effectively dump your whole deck into the graveyard. Edit: 201.5b is the blanket ruling that allows the reference for the abilities so we're all good. Thanks @Zwolfe123

[@LightBulbPlayz]

It's already in the rules that anytime a card references itself by name it means "this card" . So walking really says "Remove a +1/+1 counter from "this card": It deals 1 damage to any target. So mitch is correct about how this works. Those rulings are just to make it simpler for people to understand without referencing rule numbers.

[@Dedalus94]

@@LightBulbPlayz Ah, ok I've found the blanket ruling, it's a lot easier with this being the case. I just know that if I bring Trazy out at my table and I declare I'm using ballista's ability I'll have to show my receipts. 201.5b for anyone finding this.

[@Blu_Moon_Owl]

I can become a Wayfarer’s Bauble

[@andrewspears8891]

Equipping is an activated ability as well. Not sure how that works.

[@adamlay7317]

yes my boy Trazyn is awsome I was worried after the last 2 commanders.

[@deifiedtitan]

Is it part of the rules that Trazyn treats [CARDNAME] as his own? I know it's an FAQ for Necrotic Ooze but I haven't a clue if that's actually part of the comprehensive rules that all cards with this effect treat these effects like that. Edit: It is part of the rules. "201.5b If an ability of an object refers to that object by name, and an object with a different name gains that ability, each instance of the first name in the gained ability that refers to the first object by name should be treated as the second name."

[@ArcanoSilverwind]

I would buy this whole deck list with your link, if the list was there..

[@kews6644]

If Trazyn takes LED mana ability, wouldn't he just sacrifice himself along with discarding your hand for 3 mana?

[@tobiaslippuner1345]

LED can enable an easy one turn win with a lucky hand. Somebody else suggested One with nothing for the deck. That’s what LED does beside the 3 mana for casting your commander. It’s busted in this deck

[@dg2010]

So if I was making a deck out of him, would I add all the cards you recommend here into the deck? Or just a couple? What are the best choices?

[@lilsweetbabyraysbbqsauce1994]

This card is perfect for my vampire artifact deck

[@darknova000]

Collector Oophe keeps getting better and better

[@andrewspears8891]

Favorite turn 2 in my enchantress deck is Stony Silence.

[@Blu_Moon_Owl]

Had a friend play one when I was playing an artifact deck. I will now forever hate that card

[@chrismythtime]

Yes it does. I can’t wait for everyone that’s pushing this guy so hard finds this out at the table and realizes that necrotic ooze could actually dodge that. I feel like he’s one of those Tergrid type cards. Looks great from a distance, but at the table nobody in the pod will let you have any fun.

[@josepablomoreira6805]

Just one question, the abilities added into specific monster name also apply for the commander? A lot of this combos are about counter on specific monster names and the commander's name is clearly different

[@DotHacker99]

Short answer it totally works. Long answer below. Here's the last part of the official rule for necrotic ooze which does the exact same thing except for creatures: "If an activated ability of a card in a graveyard references the card it’s printed on by name, treat Necrotic Ooze’s version of that ability as though it referenced Necrotic Ooze by name instead. For example, if Cudgel Troll (which says “{G}: Regenerate Cudgel Troll”) is in a graveyard, Necrotic Ooze has the ability “{G}: Regenerate Necrotic Ooze.”"

[@garrettrobbins7382]

Kinda like the idea od adding Mycosynth golem to the deck to make all your creatures cost so much less

[@jcm3732]

As a necron player....I am drooling over this.

[@lorcandunne7367]

Can you make a edh deck tech on the new jhoira commander

[@pejmanhaghgou6887]

How does it work with equip cards ???

[@JohnDoe-vc5qb]

So I suppose you can make infinite mana with any big mana rock like grim monolith and staff of domination or anything that untaps itself?

[@DotHacker99]

Yep and if you use a card like sol ring/pallidium myr + pila pala you make infinite mana with taps and untaps but opponents can't interact because they're both mana abilities :D

[@AshenHawk96]

Interesting rules question: can you Reconfigure or Crew this guy? They are activated abilities of artifacts, after all... How does that work under the rules... (Yes, I know he can't really grant anything to the equipped creature or gain anything by being crewed, I'm just curious. I want the visual memes...)

[@aidancox5481]

I think so?

[@TheyCallMeDio]

Even if you can crew or reconfigure with him, what effect will it have?

[@AshenHawk96]

@@TheyCallMeDio None, but it'd be hilarious. A Necron holding a Necron piloted by another Necron And technically Reonfigure can be janky way to survive creature removal, though yes, "better" options exist.

[@zanis_summers8284]

I love how Stony Silence and the like effects completely stops the shenanigans.

[@chrismythtime]

Exactly! All of these amazing combos being mentioned all over YT and Reddit and not many people seem to be pointing out his unfortunate *Artifact creature* typing that makes him a lot worse than necrotic ooze. Still love him though and I’ll likely upgrade my precon to do degenerate things, but probably keep mine on the more casual level to still play with a lot of my playgroups.

[@TheDownSmasher]

8:45 wait, staff of domination can only untap staff of domination the card right? Because of the name in the ability

[@tarthur11]

i agree. he listed quite a few cards that untap a specifically named card

[@C00kiesAplenty]

Anytime a card says its own name it just means "this physical card". If you get the ability on another card the ability uses the new card's name. Look up the old Jace/ Nicole Bolas planweswalker combos for how stuff like that works.

[@autofigure00]

Necrotic ooze rules text: If an activated ability of a card in a graveyard references the card it's printed on by name, treat Necrotic Ooze's version of that ability as though it referenced Necrotic Ooze by name instead. For example, if Cudgel Troll (which says ": Regenerate Cudgel Troll") is in a graveyard, Necrotic Ooze has the ability ": Regenerate Necrotic Ooze."

[@vegaman3096]

Can staff of domination untap the commander with 1 mana. The effect is to untap staff of dom, not untap this card so wouldn’t the commander not be able to untap itself since its not the staff of dom... his effect is gain artifact effects not names so if the effect is to untap a name wouldnt it not work for himself?

[@augustkatana3402]

Is there an Arc coming up??? Like..Phyrexian Arc?

[@mibbzx1493]

Greasefang: my vehicles welcome you friend 🐀

[@NyxTheScary]

Its soooo busted. Like Pila Pala + Gilded Lotus is infite mana

[@jeffreybono4610]

Does the first ability actually work with Staff of Dom? Because staff untaps "Staff of Dom" not "untap this artifact"

[@Azhalan]

Trazyn can go infinite quite fast. Likely too fast for my play group as we don't play that kind of deck. I'll build a deck around him nonetheless of course 😁

[@DoomStarRequiem]

Ahhh Trollzyn .. now we need his best friend Orikan

[@Chaunwilkerson]

I got bad news...

[@pgat1247]

Does +X/+X counters have any differences to X +1/+1 counters or are they the same rules wise.

[@kampfkrapfn583]

Many old cards received updated texts, including this one. It now says "X +1/+1 counters" instead.

[@squidopedia_]

Trazyn does a little trolling

[@purple8990]

that card cannot hit the table

[@AshenRusty]

You can currently Preorder Trazyn from Card Kingdom for $6

[@sammadsen8195]

Does walking ballista actually work here? I thought the effect wouldn't work since walking ballista specifies walking ballista

[@sptlessmnd]

I was going to say the same. The wording is specific to the ballista so I'd think it wouldn't

[@micheal5973]

When cards mention their name in ability text it just means this card essentially. So if something copies and ability the name on the card just gets changed over to whatever is copying it

[@autofigure00]

Necrotic ooze rules text: If an activated ability of a card in a graveyard references the card it's printed on by name, treat Necrotic Ooze's version of that ability as though it referenced Necrotic Ooze by name instead. For example, if Cudgel Troll (which says ": Regenerate Cudgel Troll") is in a graveyard, Necrotic Ooze has the ability ": Regenerate Necrotic Ooze."

[@DeisFortuna]

Everyone Else: OMG this guy can go *INFINITE!!!* Me: *doot doot* THE SKELETON WAR HATH BEGUN! GET SPOOKY!

[@Justlaxin13]

Does Staff of Domination work with this? The single mana ability specified “Staff of Domination” so wouldn’t it not untap a card with a different name?

[@Siegorius]

It does. The name refers to the permanent activating the ability.

[@BouncingTribbles]

Short answer is his name replaces all instances of the original card name. A slightly longer explanation is that all abilities that refer to a card activating itself can be read as "pay x: untap the permanent with this ability", or whatever the activation is

[@Justlaxin13]

Awesome, thanks for the explanation.

[@ArcanoSilverwind]

Is this deck not on the TCG player deck list?? Don't see it

[@EvGamerBETA]

12:30 Commander's Fortunes

[@txdarkknight]

So he comes in the necron pre con deck?

[@adamlay7317]

yes

[@foundcause898]

Staff of Dom, LED, and Retrofitter don't work. They specifically name the card they affect

[@parkerolson4509]

How would named abilities work? If Staff of Domination says (1) untap Staff of Domination would the commander still be able to use that on itself?

[@kampfkrapfn583]

Rule 201.5b

[@fetchthebattleaxe]

"Equip" is an activated ability, so he gains the "Equip" ability of all equipment in your graveyard. But he can't use them because he doesn't have the equipment subtype. However, you could first turn him into a vehicle with Swift Reconfiguration, and then turn him into an Equipment with Bludgeon Brawl. Then if Lightning Greaves is in your graveyard, Trazyn would have "Equip 0." Admittedly, this is completely useless... but it's funny.

[@astuteanansi4935]

I kid you not, he turns himself into a bludgeon Funniest shit I've seen

[@EnkyG]

trazyn cannot use staff of dominations first ability, correct me if I'm wrong because it's name is not staff of domination. it literally says untap staff of domination not trazyn the infinite.

[@Leeroyftw]

It’s name gets replaced when using the effect while the staff of domination is in your GY, he can untap for just one mana

[@johnadam4117]

Are they calling trazen's collection trash? I mean he is basically making a museum but still not all of his things he takes are trash that been destroyed or discarded. Still super cool way to give him his fluff!

[@alexthebird2756]

He has a Pokeball with a Ctan in it 😛

[@BangBangBrandon]

Pithing Needle

[@juancarlosacaro8829]

are you professor thorgi? the voices are so similar

[@ireallycant4416]

Ayaaaaa tryzan my boy is here

[@EvGamerBETA]

Time to remember Soliton

[@lodusrex]

Rules lawyers please help me out. I hope that this commander can use the untap abilities of staff of domination and retrofitter foundry. Since those activated abilities mention those cards by name as opposed to saying “untap this artifact,“ does that still allow Trazyn to untap himself when those cards are in the graveyard?

[@kampfkrapfn583]

Yup, this works due to rule 201.5b

[@lodusrex]

@@kampfkrapfn583 Thank you!

[@danielrappe7128]

Can u use activated abilities of cards with names like "the Walking balista" I mean your Commander ist not"the walking balista" Doesnt it have to be "this creature: in the text...

[@thestrugglingchef30]

sooooo imma bring up a card that never sees play..........pendant of prosperity....... that is all (JK empowered autogenerater is fantastic as well.) :)

[@idoltohypocrisy4429]

Could be wrong but when it comes to Staff of dominations first ability wouldn’t the ability still just say “untap staff of domination” and as he is not called staff of domination that ability would have no effect on him? Edit:…actually how do any of these work? Most of them specify the cards name and as he has a different name I don’t understand how he could be a legal target… maybe I’m just over thinking this

[@C00kiesAplenty]

Anytime a card refers to itself using its own name, that just means "this physical card". Clone copies that keep their own name (Sakashima) get the ability saying the new card name. I assume Trazyn works similarly, but I'm not 100% on it. Sorry if this was too wordy.

[@idoltohypocrisy4429]

@@C00kiesAplenty not to worry at all. I figured there had to be something like this as what he is suggesting in the vid seems like what Wizards intent was. I just wasn’t sure on rulings for legal targets when it came to things like this.

[@kampfkrapfn583]

Yup, this works due to 201.5b

[@victoriaregina8344]

Luckily, tormod's crypt has existed since forever, allowing you to eliminate graveyards for the exorbitant cost of zero mana 🤣

[@Thoughtmage100]

"Just draw the Out. 4Head "

[@BABYCAKE69]

Draw it first

[@victoriaregina8344]

🤣 yes, im sure there isn't a way to hurry the drawing of cards from your deck, not like magic hasnt been around for twenty or more years

[@BABYCAKE69]

You can use urza's saga victoria. I usually tutor for sol ring, skullclamp and tormods crypt in most of my decks...

[@phaylnx]

Should be all abilities in all graveyards. He steals from everyone in the galaxy after all.

[@NTHEREFF]

Wonder how much Power 9 Trayzn has in the vault

[@aidancox5481]

He has eight of them, and the missing one really pisses him off, so it's best not to mention it.

[@jordan01553]

this deck looks so cool but so many of the cards are quite expensive

[@flareinc7413]

Buried Alive might go up in price just bc this commander bc if this guy has Haste,you can just cast the spell and win w eg the first combo. O.o

[@chrismythtime]

It’ll increase for a while, but I expect most people that are overhype for this amazing guy won’t keep the deck together once they see how easily it is shut down or casual pods don’t play against it. Needing haste is yet another downside. All of the “1 or 2” card combos always fail to mention that it’s really a 2-3 since you need your commander on the battlefield already and adding a haste enabler just increases that count even further. Theory crafting is one of my favorite aspects of this game and I absolutely love this guy & faction, but I just feel like he’s another card that’s getting too much hype that won’t see much cedh play once people see him shut down so easily at the table. I told a friend that’s going to try him in cedh that he still needs necrotic ooze in the deck to dodge a lot of the hate that shuts his commander down.

[@AlmostHeroes07]

thats it! im gettin me wallet. (in Eustace Bagge's voice)

[@maxdark9462]

I don't think staff of domination works with trazyn. The way i understand it, when the staff is in the graveyard then trazyn would gain the ability to untap staff of domination rather than the ability to untap itself. Same for the retrofitter foundry.

[@C00kiesAplenty]

Anytime a card says its own name it just means "this physical card". If you get the ability on another card the ability uses the new card's name. Look up the old Jace/ Nicole Bolas planweswalker combos for how stuff like that works.

[@autofigure00]

As the other person said, that is not the case. Necrotic ooze's rules text says: If an activated ability of a card in a graveyard references the card it's printed on by name, treat Necrotic Ooze's version of that ability as though it referenced Necrotic Ooze by name instead. For example, if Cudgel Troll (which says ": Regenerate Cudgel Troll") is in a graveyard, Necrotic Ooze has the ability ": Regenerate Necrotic Ooze."

[@zacharyjoy8724]

(Read the card…Think about it…MASSIVE SPIT TAKE!) No doubt about it. The Necrons are going to be Ridiculous (capital R deserved).

[@CitrusBiff]

Question: if my he can go infinite and my opponents have no way to counter him in that round, I’ve essentially won the game?

[@skulletorable]

Need to be able to output damage with it. Infinite mana is fine but if you can’t do anything with it then it’s useless

[@spidy993]

After seeing this card i'm pretty sure they can unsilver do-it-yourself seraph and make her legendary

[@anergyboy2192]

This is the only thing I want in Magic.

[@tarthur11]

pretty sure the untap abilities that declare the bame of the card dont work because youre not untapping that specific card

[@Entac1165]

It works, card names just mean "this physical card"

[@autofigure00]

Necrotic ooze rules text: If an activated ability of a card in a graveyard references the card it's printed on by name, treat Necrotic Ooze's version of that ability as though it referenced Necrotic Ooze by name instead. For example, if Cudgel Troll (which says ": Regenerate Cudgel Troll") is in a graveyard, Necrotic Ooze has the ability ": Regenerate Necrotic Ooze."

[@jaydub5515]

Do you think the Staff of Domination untap would work? Because it says "Untap Staff of Dom" instead of Untap this card, so if the Commander had that text, it would just Untap a card named Staff of Dom. Just wondering.

[@Nit0WasTaken]

I was thinking the exact same thing. If I remember correctly there are some cards where the card name in the rules text can be replaced with "this card". Most, if not all of those cards however, have had newer versions printed with the correct rule text. Unlike Staff of Domination. EDIT: Funnily enough, Bastalt Monolith's OLD rule text does not mention "Basalt Monolith" in it's untap ability's rule text. It just says "pay {0} to untap". So the old rule text of Basalt Monolith would allow Trazyn to untap itself, but the new rule text of Basalt Monolith would not, if we read the rule text word for word that is. So, I'm guessing there are still cases where the card's name in the rule text is meant to be seen as "this card".

[@crovax1375]

This from the comprehensive rules 201.4b If an ability of an object refers to that object by name, and an object with a different name gains that ability, all instances of the first name in the gained ability should be treated as the second name. Example: Quicksilver Elemental says, in part, "{U}: Quicksilver Elemental gains all activated abilities of target creature until end of turn." If it gains an ability that says "{B}: Regenerate Drudge Skeletons," activating that ability will regenerate Quicksilver Elemental, not the Drudge Skeletons it gained the ability from

[@AshenHawk96]

The short version is yes. Any card that refrences itself as part of it's own effect basically just means "the card this ability is on".

[@Nit0WasTaken]

@@crovax1375 That's what I thought. Thanks for clarifying.

[@shadowcell1184]

I think you forgot that it doesn't gain the artifacts names so the abilities that state the name don't work.

[@autofigure00]

Nope, just like necrotic ooze has always been ruled, the abilities will reference Trazyn instead of their original card. (Necrotic oozes rules text: If an activated ability of a card in a graveyard references the card it's printed on by name, treat Necrotic Ooze's version of that ability as though it referenced Necrotic Ooze by name instead. For example, if Cudgel Troll (which says ": Regenerate Cudgel Troll") is in a graveyard, Necrotic Ooze has the ability ": Regenerate Necrotic Ooze.")

[@shadowcell1184]

@@autofigure00 that maybe true, however they might not make it so for this card. guess we wont know until the rules get put up.

[@autofigure00]

@@shadowcell1184 From the comprehensive rules: 201.4b If an ability of an object refers to that object by name, and an object with a different name gains that ability, all instances of the first name in the gained ability should be treated as the second name.

[@shadowcell1184]

@@autofigure00 Oh that's awesome cheers

[@invictus_Vi]

Chromatic orrery, basalt monolith.

[@invictus_Vi]

Yup, wrote this at the 25 second mark, knew that combo was gonna show up.

[@ChaosRaptorEye]

A lot of flamer ... But i would have prefer an artifact cleptomaniac XD

[@antivirusexe2856]

time vault??? infinite turns???? hello??

[@troIIdier]

Trazyn didn't show up to steal cards, he's just stealing whole games

[@MrMeeseeksthe1st]

Infinite tribal!