Genestealer Patriarch 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.
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Official card text
Genestealer's Kiss — Whenever this creature 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.
How it works : Genestealer Patriarch
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
The token copies the creature as it last existed on the battlefield before it died, not as it exists in the graveyard.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
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.
Card named in this ruling
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied creature was copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.
Card named in this ruling
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied creature had
in its mana cost, X is 0.No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Genestealer Patriarch + Umbral Collar Zealot + Leech Bonder + Host of the Hereafter
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
- 1Declare Genestealer Patriarch as an attacker.
- 2Genestealer Patriarch's first ability triggers, putting an infection counter on a creature an opponent controls.
- 3Activate Leech Bonder's ability by paying its cost, moving the infection counter from the opponent's creature onto a creature you control.
- 4Activate Umbral Collar Zealot by sacrificing the creature with an infection counter on it.
- 5When the creature dies, Host of the Hereafter and Genestealer Patriarch's second ability trigger.
- 6Resolve the Host of the Hereafter trigger, putting an infection counter onto another creature you control.
- 7Resolve the Genestealer Patriarch trigger, causing you to create a token copy of the sacrificed creature that is a Tyranid in addition to its other types.
- 8Resolve the Umbral Collar Zealot ability.
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#2
Genestealer Patriarch + Woe Strider + Fate Transfer + Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
- 1Declare Genestealer Patriarch as an attacker.
- 2Genestealer Patriarch's first ability triggers, putting an infection counter on a creature an opponent controls.
- 3Cast Fate Transfer by paying its cost, moving the infection counter from the opponent's creature onto a creature you control.
- 4Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing the creature with an infection counter on it.
- 5When the creature dies, Reyhan and Genestealer Patriarch's second ability trigger.
- 6Resolve the Reyhan trigger, putting an infection counter onto another creature you control.
- 7Resolve the Genestealer Patriarch trigger, causing you to create a token copy of the sacrificed creature that is a Tyranid in addition to its other types.
- 8Resolve the Woe Strider ability.
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Genestealer Patriarch + Bartolomé del Presidio + Host of the Hereafter + Rikku, Resourceful Guardian
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creatureInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Declare Genestealer Patriarch as an attacker.
- 2Genestealer Patriarch's first ability triggers, putting an infection counter on a creature an opponent controls.
- 3Activate Rikku's ability by paying its cost, moving the infection counter from the opponent's creature onto a creature you control.
- 4Activate Bartolomé del Presidio by sacrificing the creature with an infection counter on it.
- 5When the creature dies, Host of the Hereafter and Genestealer Patriarch's second ability trigger.
- 6Resolve the Host of the Hereafter trigger, putting an infection counter onto another creature you control.
- 7Resolve the Genestealer Patriarch trigger, causing you to create a token copy of the sacrificed creature that is a Tyranid in addition to its other types.
- 8Resolve the Bartolomé del Presidio ability.
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Genestealer Patriarch + Woe Strider + Leech Bonder + Reluctant Role Model
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
- 1Declare Genestealer Patriarch as an attacker.
- 2Genestealer Patriarch's first ability triggers, putting an infection counter on a creature an opponent controls.
- 3Activate Leech Bonder's ability by paying its cost, moving the infection counter from the opponent's creature onto a creature you control.
- 4Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing the creature with an infection counter on it.
- 5When the creature dies, Reluctant Role Model and Genestealer Patriarch's second ability trigger.
- 6Resolve the Reluctant Role Model trigger, putting an infection counter onto another creature you control.
- 7Resolve the Genestealer Patriarch trigger, causing you to create a token copy of the sacrificed creature that is a Tyranid in addition to its other types.
- 8Resolve the Woe Strider ability.
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#5
Genestealer Patriarch + Shilgengar, Sire of Famine + Reluctant Role Model + Rikku, Resourceful Guardian
Infinite Blood tokensInfinite artifact tokensInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Declare Genestealer Patriarch as an attacker.
- 2Genestealer Patriarch's first ability triggers, putting an infection counter on a creature an opponent controls.
- 3Activate Rikku's ability by paying its cost, moving the infection counter from the opponent's creature onto a creature you control.
- 4Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing the creature with an infection counter on it.
- 5When the creature dies, Reluctant Role Model and Genestealer Patriarch's second ability trigger.
- 6Resolve the Reluctant Role Model trigger, putting an infection counter onto another creature you control.
- 7Resolve the Genestealer Patriarch trigger, causing you to create a token copy of the sacrificed creature that is a Tyranid in addition to its other types.
- 8Resolve the Shilgengar ability.
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Genestealer Patriarch + Umbral Collar Zealot + Leech Bonder + Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
- 1Declare Genestealer Patriarch as an attacker.
- 2Genestealer Patriarch's first ability triggers, putting an infection counter on a creature an opponent controls.
- 3Activate Leech Bonder's ability by paying its cost, moving the infection counter from the opponent's creature onto a creature you control.
- 4Activate Umbral Collar Zealot by sacrificing the creature with an infection counter on it.
- 5When the creature dies, Reyhan and Genestealer Patriarch's second ability trigger.
- 6Resolve the Reyhan trigger, putting an infection counter onto another creature you control.
- 7Resolve the Genestealer Patriarch trigger, causing you to create a token copy of the sacrificed creature that is a Tyranid in addition to its other types.
- 8Resolve the Umbral Collar Zealot ability.
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#7
Genestealer Patriarch + Thermopod + Fate Transfer + Reluctant Role Model
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
- 1Declare Genestealer Patriarch as an attacker.
- 2Genestealer Patriarch's first ability triggers, putting an infection counter on a creature an opponent controls.
- 3Cast Fate Transfer by paying its cost, moving the infection counter from the opponent's creature onto a creature you control.
- 4Activate Thermopod by sacrificing the creature with an infection counter on it, adding
. - 5When the creature dies, Reluctant Role Model and Genestealer Patriarch's second ability trigger.
- 6Resolve the Reluctant Role Model trigger, putting an infection counter onto another creature you control.
- 7Resolve the Genestealer Patriarch trigger, causing you to create a token copy of the sacrificed creature that is a Tyranid in addition to its other types.
- 8Repeat from step 4.
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#8
Genestealer Patriarch + Woe Strider + Leech Bonder + Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
- 1Declare Genestealer Patriarch as an attacker.
- 2Genestealer Patriarch's first ability triggers, putting an infection counter on a creature an opponent controls.
- 3Activate Leech Bonder's ability by paying its cost, moving the infection counter from the opponent's creature onto a creature you control.
- 4Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing the creature with an infection counter on it.
- 5When the creature dies, Reyhan and Genestealer Patriarch's second ability trigger.
- 6Resolve the Reyhan trigger, putting an infection counter onto another creature you control.
- 7Resolve the Genestealer Patriarch trigger, causing you to create a token copy of the sacrificed creature that is a Tyranid in addition to its other types.
- 8Resolve the Woe Strider ability.
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