Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance 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
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: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature or artifact you control, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Complete guide
Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance is a versatile legendary artificer that excels at creating short-lived, high-impact copies of your own assets. By harnessing her powers, you can duplicate your most valuable creatures and artifacts to gain immediate tactical advantages. This guide covers how her copy ability functions and how to maximize its potential on the battlefield.
What It Does
Saheeli allows you to pay one blue and one red mana and tap her to target another creature or artifact you control. You create a token that is an exact copy of that permanent, with three specific modifications: it becomes an artifact in addition to its other types, it gains haste, and it must be sacrificed at the beginning of the next end step. Because it gains haste, you can use its activated abilities or attack with it immediately, even if it is a creature.
How It Resolves Step by Step
First, you activate the ability by paying {U}{R}, tapping Saheeli, and choosing a legal target you control. Upon resolution, the token enters the battlefield, triggering any 'enters-the-battlefield' abilities the original card has. The token copies the printed values of the card, ignoring counters, Auras, or temporary power buffs. Finally, a delayed triggered ability is created that will wait until the next end step to force you to sacrifice the token.
Common Mistakes
A common error is forgetting that the token becomes an artifact. This makes it vulnerable to artifact destruction spells like Shatter, even if the original was just a creature. Additionally, remember that if you activate this ability during an end step, the 'next end step' won't occur until the following turn's end step, allowing you to keep the token for a full rotation of the table.
When to Play It
Saheeli is best utilized when you have permanents with powerful 'enters-the-battlefield' triggers or activated abilities that require tapping. Since the token gains haste, it effectively allows you to 'double up' on a utility creature's effect immediately. It is also an excellent tool for combat, providing an extra attacker that your opponent may not have factored into their blocks.
Interaction examples
Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance
Ornithopter of ParadiseWith Saheeli and Ornithopter of Paradise on the field, you can pay {U}{R} and tap Saheeli to create a copy of the Ornithopter. Because Saheeli's ability gives the token haste, you can immediately tap the new token for a mana of any color. This effectively filters Saheeli's activation cost and provides an extra flying blocker or attacker for the turn.
Professional Face-BreakerIf you control Professional Face-Breaker, you can use Saheeli to create a copy of it before your combat phase. Since the token has haste, it can attack alongside the original. If both deal combat damage, the two Face-Breaker abilities will each trigger, potentially creating multiple Treasure tokens. You can then sacrifice those Treasures to exile cards from your library, utilizing the token's presence to generate massive card advantage before it is sacrificed at the end of the turn.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
The token copies exactly what was printed on the original permanent, with the listed exceptions (unless that permanent is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether that permanent is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or any Auras or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its types, color, power and toughness, and so on.
Card named in this ruling
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied permanent has
in its mana cost, X is 0.No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied permanent is a token, the new token that's created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created the token (with the listed exceptions).
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied permanent is copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that permanent copied (with the listed exceptions).
Card named in this ruling
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied permanent will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this permanent] enters the battlefield" or "[this permanent] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the target permanent will also work.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance + Combat Celebrant
- 1Activate any number of creatures by tapping them, adding at least
. - 2Activate Saheeli by paying and tapping it, creating a token copy of Combat Celebrant with haste.
- 3Declare the Combat Celebrant token as an attacker, choosing to exert it as it attacks. The token triggers, untapping all other creatures you control and causing you to get an additional combat phase after this one.
- 4Repeat
Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance + Intruder Alarm
- 1Activate any number of creatures by tapping them, adding at least .
- 2Activate Saheeli by paying and tapping it, creating a token copy of another creature you control with haste.
- 3When the creature token enters the battlefield, Intruder Alarm triggers, untapping all creatures.
- 4Repeat.
- 5If creatures you control can tap to produce at least
, this combo nets infinite mana.
Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance + Timestream Navigator
- 1Activate Saheeli by paying and tapping it, creating a token copy of Timestream Navigator with haste.
- 2Activate the Timestream Navigator token by paying
, tapping it and putting it on the bottom of your library from the battlefield, causing you to take an extra turn after this one. - 3Repeat each turn.
Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance + Atsushi, the Blazing Sky + Intruder Alarm
- 1Activate Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance by paying and tapping it, creating a token copy of Atsushi.
- 2Put the Atsushi token into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
- 3Atsushi and Intruder Alarm trigger.
- 4Resolve the Atsushi trigger, creating three Treasure tokens.
- 5Resolve the Intruder Alarm trigger, untapping all creatures.
- 6Activate two Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 7Repeat.
Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance + Minamo, School at Water's Edge + Peregrine Drake
- 1Activate up to four lands except Minamo by tapping them, adding at least .
- 2Activate Saheeli by paying and tapping it, creating a token copy of Peregrine Drake with haste.
- 3When the Peregrine Drake token enters, it triggers, untapping Minamo and up to four other lands.
- 4Activate Minamo's second ability by paying and tapping it, untapping Saheeli.
- 5Repeat.
Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance + Phyrexian Altar + Intruder Alarm
- 1Activate Saheeli by paying and tapping it, creating a token copy of the creature that creates one or more creature token(s) when it enters with haste.
- 2When the creature enters, it and Intruder Alarm trigger.
- 3Resolve the Intruder Alarm trigger, untapping all creatures.
- 4Resolve the creature's trigger, creating at least two creature tokens.
- 5When the creature tokens enter the battlefield, Intruder Alarm triggers twice, untapping all creatures twice.
- 6Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing two creature tokens, adding .
- 7Repeat.
- 8Activate any number of creatures by tapping them, adding at least .
Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance + There and Back Again + Freed from the Real
- 1At the beginning of your precombat main phase, There and Back Again triggers, putting a lore counter on it.
- 2There and Back Again's third chapter ability triggers, creating a legendary 6/6 Smaug creature token and causing you to sacrifice There and Back Again.
- 3Activate Saheeli by paying and tapping it, creating a token copy of Smaug with haste.
- 4Put either Smaug token into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
- 5When the Smaug token dies, it triggers, creating fourteen Treasure tokens.
- 6Activate three Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 7Activate Freed from the Real's second ability by paying , untapping Saheeli.
- 8Repeat from step 3.
Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance + Prosperous Pirates + Coercive Recruiter
- 1Activate Saheeli by paying and tapping it, creating a token copy of Prosperous Pirates with haste.
- 2When the Prosperous Pirates token enters the battlefield, it and Coercive Recruiter trigger.
- 3Resolve the Prosperous Pirates trigger, creating two Treasure tokens.
- 4Resolve the Coercive Recruiter trigger, untapping Saheeli.
- 5Activate two Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 6Repeat.
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