Basri's Lieutenant 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
Vigilance, protection from multicolored When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, if it had a +1/+1 counter on it, create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance.
How it works : Basri's Lieutenant
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Basri's Lieutenant can be the target of its own enters-the-battlefield triggered ability.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
The second triggered ability of Basri's Lieutenant triggers just once if the dying creature has +1/+1 counters on it, no matter how many of those counters it has.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If Basri's Lieutenant dies at the same time as other creatures, its last ability will trigger for any of the creatures that had a +1/+1 counter on it, including itself.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If a creature with +1/+1 counters on it receives a greater or equal number of -1/-1 counters and this causes it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner's graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, the last ability triggers. This is because the ability checks the creature as it last existed on the battlefield, and it still had those counters on it at that point.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Basri's Lieutenant + Cathars' Crusade + Ashnod's Altar
- 1Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing a creature with at least one +1/+1 counter, adding
. - 2Basri's Lieutenant trigger, creating a 2/2 Knight token.
- 3When Knight token enters the battlefield, Cathars' Crusade triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
- 4Repeat.
Basri's Lieutenant + Cathars' Crusade + Phyrexian Altar
- 1Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing a creature with at least one +1/+1 counter, adding one mana of any color.
- 2Basri's Lieutenant trigger, creating a 2/2 Knight token.
- 3When Knight token enters the battlefield, Cathars' Crusade triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
- 4Repeat.
Basri's Lieutenant + Cathars' Crusade + Carrion Feeder
- 1Activate Carrion Feeder by sacrificing a creature with at least one +1/+1 counter, Carrion Feeder gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- 2Basri's Lieutenant trigger, creating a 2/2 Knight token.
- 3When Knight token enters the battlefield, Cathars' Crusade triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
- 4Resolve the Goblin Bombardment ability by dealing 1 damage to any target.
- 5Repeat.
Basri's Lieutenant + Cathars' Crusade + Viscera Seer
- 1Activate Viscera Seer by sacrificing a creature with at least one +1/+1 counter.
- 2Basri's Lieutenant trigger, creating a 2/2 Knight token.
- 3When Knight token enters the battlefield, Cathars' Crusade triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
- 4Resolve the Viscera Seer ability, scrying one.
- 5Repeat.
Basri's Lieutenant + Cathars' Crusade + Altar of Dementia
- 1Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing a creature with at least one +1/+1 counter.
- 2Basri's Lieutenant trigger, creating a 2/2 Knight token.
- 3When Knight token enters the battlefield, Cathars' Crusade triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
- 4Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability, causing target player to mill cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
- 5Repeat.
Basri's Lieutenant + Cathars' Crusade + Goblin Bombardment
- 1Activate Goblin Bombardment by sacrificing a creature with at least one +1/+1 counter.
- 2Basri's Lieutenant trigger, creating a 2/2 Knight token.
- 3When Knight token enters the battlefield, Cathars' Crusade triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
- 4Resolve the Goblin Bombardment ability by dealing 1 damage to any target.
- 5Repeat.
Basri's Lieutenant + Cathars' Crusade + Blasting Station
- 1Activate Blasting Station by tapping and sacrificing a creature with at least one +1/+1 counter.
- 2Basri's Lieutenant trigger, creating a 2/2 Knight token.
- 3When Knight token enters the battlefield, Blasting Station and Cathars' Crusade triggers.
- 4Resolve the Blasting Station trigger, untapping itself.
- 5Resolve the Cathars' Crusade trigger, putting a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
- 6Resolve the Blasting Station ability by dealing 1 damage to any target.
- 7Repeat.
Basri's Lieutenant + Metallic Mimic + Ashnod's Altar
- 1Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing another creature with a +1/+1 counter on it, adding .
- 2When the creature dies, Basri's Lieutenant's second ability triggers, creating a 2/2 Knight creature token that enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter due to Metallic Mimic.
- 3Repeat.
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