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Ludevic, Necrogenius // Olag, Ludevic's Hubris

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard // Legendary Creature — Zombie

The flip side is an open-ended reanimation engine dressed as a transform card: Olag arrives wearing a creature card pulled straight from your own graveyard, rebranded as a 4/4 blue and black Zombie and reinforced by one extra +1/+1 counter for every card you feed the activation, the copied one included. That transform cost charges the same power twice: four colored pips plus X generic, then that identical X paid again in creature cards exiled from the yard. Every point of X is at once a mana sink and a graveyard levy, since each exiled creature both enters the pool of possible copy targets and swells the finished body. That double duty is what promotes the front face's mill from filler to fuel; the Wizard spends its combats stocking the yard with bodies it fully intends to devour into whatever the best buried creature turns out to be. Because the transform is sorcery-speed only, Olag never ambushes anyone mid-combat: assembling it is a declared, telegraphed turn. The genuinely mutable element is Olag's identity, which resolves in two beats. The pool is locked in at activation, exiled up front as a cost; the specific creature copied is picked later, as the transform resolves. That split reframes deckbuilding as a question of which dead creatures you want waiting in reserve to be raised by imitation, and how deep into the ritual you are willing to commit to raise the biggest one.

Ludevic, Necrogenius // Olag, Ludevic's Hubris (mid)
MID · #233rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.38
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever Ludevic enters or attacks, mill a card. X generic manaBlue manaBlue manaBlack manaBlack mana, Exile X creature cards from your graveyard: Transform Ludevic. X can't be 0. Activate only as a sorcery. // As this creature transforms into Olag, Ludevic's Hubris, it becomes a copy of a creature card exiled with it, except its name is Olag, Ludevic's Hubris, it's 4/4, and it's a legendary blue and black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on Olag equal to the number of creature cards exiled with it.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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