Rowdy Crew 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
Trample When this creature enters, draw three cards, then discard two cards at random. If two cards that share a card type are discarded this way, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Complete guide
Rowdy Crew is a high-variance Human Pirate that brings both card advantage and potential physical power to the battlefield. By gambling with your hand, you can transform this 3/3 trampler into a formidable 5/5 threat while digging deeper into your deck.
What It Does
When Rowdy Crew enters the battlefield, you draw three cards and then immediately discard two cards at random. If the two cards discarded this way share at least one card type—such as both being creatures or both being lands—Rowdy Crew receives two +1/+1 counters. This check includes all official card types: artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, kindred, land, planeswalker, and sorcery.
How It Resolves Step by Step
First, the triggered ability is put on the stack when Rowdy Crew enters. Once it starts resolving, you draw your three cards. Next, you must select two cards from your entire hand at random to discard. Finally, you compare the types of those two specific cards. If they share a type, you place the counters on Rowdy Crew. Note that even if the cards share multiple types, you only ever receive a maximum of two counters.
Common Mistakes
A frequent error is trying to cast spells or activate abilities after drawing the cards but before discarding. The entire ability resolves as one single block; no player can take actions in between the draw and the discard. Additionally, remember that 'Legendary' is a supertype, not a card type. Discarding two different Legendary cards will not grant counters unless they also share a type like 'Creature' or 'Artifact'.
When to Play It
Rowdy Crew is best utilized in decks that benefit from having cards in the graveyard or those that can manipulate triggered abilities. Since the discard is random, it is often safer to play Rowdy Crew when your hand size is small, increasing the likelihood that the three cards you just drew (which might share types) are the ones selected for discard.
Interaction examples
Roaming ThroneIf you have Roaming Throne on the battlefield with 'Human' or 'Pirate' chosen, Rowdy Crew's ability triggers twice. You will draw three and discard two twice in a row. This gives you two separate chances to discard matching types and potentially put a total of four +1/+1 counters on Rowdy Crew.
Solemn SimulacrumIf Rowdy Crew's ability causes you to discard a Solemn Simulacrum and any other creature (or any other artifact), Rowdy Crew will get the counters. Because Solemn Simulacrum is both an 'Artifact' and a 'Creature', it has a higher mathematical chance of sharing a type with whatever other card is randomly discarded alongside it.
With an empty hand, playing Rowdy Crew means you draw three cards and then discard two of those three at random. If you draw two lands and one sorcery, and the two lands are the ones randomly chosen, Rowdy Crew enters as a 5/5 with Trample.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Rowdy Crew
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Once Rowdy Crew's triggered ability begins to resolve, no player may take other actions until it's done. Notably, you can't discard or cast any of the cards you draw to try to rig the results of the random discard.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
The card types that can appear on the discarded cards are artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, kindred, land, planeswalker, and sorcery. Legendary is a supertype, not a card type.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
The discarded cards just need to share one card type. For example, Rowdy Crew will get two +1/+1 counters if you discard an artifact creature and an enchantment creature.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
Rowdy Crew doesn't get more than two +1/+1 counters if the discarded cards happen to share more than one card type.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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