Azlask, the Swelling Scourge is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Whenever Azlask or another colorless creature you control dies, you get an experience counter.: Creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of experience counters you have. Scions and Spawns you control gain indestructible and annihilator 1 until end of turn.
How it works : Azlask, the Swelling Scourge
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
All experience counters are identical, no matter how you got them. For example, the last ability will count experience counters that you got from the first ability, from another ability, from proliferating, and so on.
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- #2· Wizards of the Coast
The value of X is determined only once, as Azlask's last ability resolves.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Annihilator abilities trigger and resolve during the declare attackers step. The defending player sacrifices the required number of permanents of their choice before they declare blockers. Any creatures sacrificed this way won't be able to block.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If a creature with annihilator is attacking a planeswalker, and the defending player chooses to sacrifice that planeswalker, the attacking creature continues to attack. It may be blocked. If it isn't blocked, it simply won't deal combat damage to anything.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
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Azlask, the Swelling Scourge + Devoted Druid + Chromatic Orrery
- 1Activate Azlask by paying
, giving each creature you control +1/+1 until end of turn for each experience counter you have. - 2Activate Devoted Druid's first ability by tapping it, adding .
- 3Activate Devoted Druid's second ability by putting a -1/-1 counter on it, untapping it.
- 4Repeat steps 2 and 3 four additional times.
- 5Repeat from step 1.
Azlask, the Swelling Scourge + Devoted Druid + Mycosynth Lattice
- 1Activate Azlask by paying , giving each creature you control +1/+1 until end of turn for each experience counter you have.
- 2Activate Devoted Druid's first ability by tapping it, adding .
- 3Activate Devoted Druid's second ability by putting a -1/-1 counter on it, untapping it.
- 4Repeat steps 2 and 3 four additional times.
- 5Repeat from step 1.
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