Azor's Gateway

Legendary Artifact

{1} , {T} : Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand. If cards with five or more different mana values are exiled with Azor's Gateway, you gain 5 life, untap Azor's Gateway, and transform it.

Transform

Set: Rivals of Ixalan (RIX #176)
Rarity: Mythic
Mana value: 2
Released: 2018-01-19
Artist: Yeong-Hao Han
EDHREC rank: #8,534
Finishes: Nonfoil, Foil
Served from: Local database

Commander bracket

1 +

Fits any bracket

No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 0.23

How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.

Draw Ramp

Combos

Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.

Format legality

Standard Not legal

Pioneer Legal

Modern Legal

Legacy Legal

Vintage Legal

Pauper Not legal

Commander Legal

Oathbreaker Legal

Duel Commander Legal

Brawl Legal

Standard Brawl Not legal

Historic Legal

Timeless Legal

Alchemy Not legal

Penny Legal

Premodern Not legal

PreDH Not legal

Pauper EDH Not legal

Old School Not legal

Future Not legal

Gladiator Legal

All printings Scryfall ↗Gatherer ↗Edhrec ↗

Rulings

2018-01-19
If a card in exile has in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
2018-01-19
If an object has no mana cost, its mana value is 0. A mana value of 0 can still help unlock Azor's Gateway.
2018-01-19
The ability of Sanctum of the Sun is a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.
2018-01-19
The cards you exile from your hand are exiled face up.
2018-01-19
The mana value of a split card, such as a card with aftermath from the Amonkhet block, is based on the combined mana cost of its two halves. A split card doesn't have two mana values.