Genestealer Patriarch

Genestealer Patriarch {4}{U}

Creature - Tyranid
Genestealer's Kiss — Whenever Genestealer Patriarch attacks, put an infection counter on target creature defending player controls.
Children of the Cult — Whenever a creature with an infection counter on it dies, you create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's a Tyranid in addition to its other types.
4/4
Details
Legalities
Rulings
  • 2022-10-07 Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the creature will also work.
  • 2022-10-07 If the copied creature had {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
  • 2022-10-07 If the copied creature was copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.
  • 2022-10-07 If you control more than one Genestealer Patriarch as a creature with an infection counter on it dies, each one's ability will trigger, and you will make two tokens that are copies of it.
  • 2022-10-07 The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature was tapped or untapped, whether it had any counters on it or Auras or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that had changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.
  • 2022-10-07 The token copies the creature as it last existed on the battlefield before it died, not as it exists in the graveyard.
Printings
  • Warhammer 40,000 Commander 22 22★ (rare)

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Foreign names
  • 基因窃取者族长
  • Patriarch der Symbionten
  • Patriarche Genestealer
  • Patriarca dei Genoraptor
  • ジーンスティーラー・パトリアーク
  • Patriarca Genestealer
  • Patriarca Genestealer