Chea, Friend to Maybe Too Many
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Mystery Booster 2MB2 · #591
- Card type
- Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.42 € · 0.29 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 4
- Colour
- White Black Green
Card text
Familiar spells you cast have flash. (Bats, Birds, Cats, Dragons, Faeries, Foxes, Frogs, Imps, Lizards, and Spiders are familiars, as well as any creature with "Familiar" in its name.) : Add X and each opponent loses X life, where X is the number of familiars you control.
Format legality
Legality is not available in the catalogue.
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Stephanie Bouchard
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2024-08-02
Rulings
Chea’s last ability is a mana ability. It doesn’t use the stack and can’t be responded to.
For many playtest cards, you’ll need to make a generous assumption that basic game rules would be updated to allow them to work. The Mystery Booster 2 Playtest Card Notes section (reproduced here in individual Gatherer rulings) provides guidance for fitting these cards into the existing rules structure.
I’m not sure what wizard would want Lazav, Familiar Stranger as their familiar, but to each their own. (I would pick Owl Familiar, personally.)
Playtest cards aren’t legal for play in any tournament format other than Mystery Booster Limited formats. On the other hand, we expect they will spice up a wide variety of non-tournament games (as long as everyone’s on the same page about using them!).
Playtest cards use a modified version of game symbols, such as and . These modified symbols should be treated as the standard symbols during play.