Alistair, the Brigadier
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Doctor WhoWHO · #992
- Card type
- Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- ★ 1.00 € · ★ 2.27 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- White Blue Green
Card text
Whenever you cast a historic spell, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.) Whenever Alistair attacks, you may pay . If you do, creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of historic permanents you control.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- VintageLegal
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
- Thanh Tuấn
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2023-10-13
Rulings
You choose whether to pay as Alistair's second ability resolves. Notably, once it begins to resolve, none of your opponents may take actions that might change the result before it happens, such as casting a spell that destroys one of your historic permanents.