MTGO
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Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor
Defender
Sokrates has hexproof as long as it's untapped.
Sokratic Dialogue — 
: Until end of turn, target creature gains "If this creature would deal combat damage to a player, prevent that damage. This creature's controller and that player each draw half that many cards, rounded down."
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Sokratic DialogueDefender
- Set
- Assassin's Creed (ACR #250)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2024-07-05
- Artist
- Alice Xia Zhang
- EDHREC rank
- #4,601
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Etched
- 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
0.15
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Can be your commander
Combos 5
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher+Body of Research+Teferi's Ageless Insight
Infinite card drawInfinite draw triggersNear-infinite card draw for target opponentNear-infinite draw triggers for target opponent
2 decks
Commander Spellbook ↗
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher+Body of Research+Thought Reflection
Infinite card drawInfinite draw triggersNear-infinite card draw for target opponentNear-infinite draw triggers for target opponent
1 decks
Commander Spellbook ↗
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher+Body of Research+Alhammarret's Archive
Infinite card drawInfinite draw triggersNear-infinite card draw for target opponentNear-infinite draw triggers for target opponent
1 decks
Commander Spellbook ↗
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher+Body of Research+Vnwxt, Verbose Host
Infinite card drawInfinite draw triggersNear-infinite card draw for target opponentNear-infinite draw triggers for target opponent
0 decks
Commander Spellbook ↗
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher+Body of Research+Bard, King of Dale
Infinite card drawInfinite draw triggersNear-infinite card draw for target opponentNear-infinite draw triggers for target opponent
0 decks
Commander Spellbook ↗
Format legality
Standard
Not legal
Pioneer
Not legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Pauper
Not legal
Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Brawl
Not legal
Standard Brawl
Not legal
Historic
Not legal
Timeless
Not legal
Alchemy
Not legal
Penny
Legal
Premodern
Not legal
PreDH
Not legal
Pauper EDH
Not legal
Old School
Not legal
Future
Not legal
Gladiator
Not legal
Rulings
- 2024-07-05
If damage dealt by a creature with the ability granted by Sokrates's last ability can't be prevented for some reason, the appropriate players will still draw half that many cards, rounded down. (This won't come up often, but the unexamined ability is not worth activating.)