Akal Pakal, First Among Equals
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor
At the beginning of each player's end step, if an artifact entered the battlefield under your control this turn, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
"These lost children of Aclazotz are misguided, but perhaps there can be reconciliation of our ideals without war."
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- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI #44)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2023-11-17
- Artist
- Ryan Pancoast
- EDHREC rank
- #12,513
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Shimmer Myr
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch
- Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
- Darksteel Citadel
- Seat of the Synod
- Collector's Vault
- Etherium Sculptor
- Thought Monitor
- Faerie Artisans
- Buried Ruin
- Foundry Inspector
- Deduce
- Kappa Cannoneer
- Sai, Master Thopterist
- Cyberdrive Awakener
- Archway of Innovation
- Stern Lesson
- Treasure Vault
- Noble's Purse
- Master Transmuter
- Forensic Gadgeteer
- Retrofitter Foundry
- Mirrodin Besieged
- Vedalken Orrery
- Hornswoggle
- Urza, Powerstone Prodigy
- Scrap Trawler
- Myr Retriever
- Rise and Shine
- Silver Myr
- Leyline of Anticipation
- Thoughtcast
- The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan
- Unwinding Clock
- Desynchronization
- Secrets of the Key
- Chrome Host Seedshark
- Academy Ruins
- Uthros, Titanic Godcore
- Thopter Spy Network
- Urza's Command
- Hall of Tagsin
- Spell Swindle
- Desculpting Blast
- Mystic Forge
- Worldwalker Helm
- Transmutation Font
- Urza, Lord High Artificer
- Brackish Blunder
- Access Denied
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Sol Ring
- Shimmer Myr
- Seat of the Synod
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch
- Darksteel Citadel
- Etherium Sculptor
- Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
- Arcane Signet
- Foundry Inspector
- Buried Ruin
- Thought Monitor
- Collector's Vault
- Mind Stone
- Kappa Cannoneer
- Sai, Master Thopterist
- Counterspell
- Faerie Artisans
- Archway of Innovation
- Deduce
- Academy Ruins
- Thought Vessel
- Forensic Gadgeteer
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Cyberdrive Awakener
- Silver Myr
- Unwinding Clock
- Treasure Vault
- Thoughtcast
- Master Transmuter
- Leyline of Anticipation
- Mirrodin Besieged
- Phyrexian Metamorph
- Stern Lesson
- Uthros, Titanic Godcore
- Reliquary Tower
- Whir of Invention
- Noble's Purse
- Myr Retriever
- Scrap Trawler
- Mystic Forge
- Vedalken Orrery
- Retrofitter Foundry
- Thopter Spy Network
- Rise and Shine
- Inventors' Fair
- Ornithopter of Paradise
- Padeem, Consul of Innovation
- Urza, Lord High Artificer
- Urza, Powerstone Prodigy
Format legality
Rulings
- 2023-11-10
If there is only one card in your library, you put it into your hand.
- 2023-11-10
The ability will trigger no matter what happened to the artifact after it entered. It may have left the battlefield, come under another player's control, or stopped being an artifact.