Sandstorm Crasher 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 You may exert this creature as it attacks. When you do, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of target creature you control. Sacrifice the token at the beginning of the next end step. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)
How it works : Sandstorm Crasher
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If an exerted permanent is already untapped during your next untap step (most likely because an effect untapped it), exert's effect preventing it from untapping expires without having done anything.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If you gain control of another player's permanent until end of turn and exert it, and then that player regains control of it, it will untap during that player's untap step.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
You can exert Sandstorm Crasher as you declare it as an attacking creature. You can't do so later in combat, and creatures put onto the battlefield attacking can't be exerted. Any abilities that trigger on exerting an attacking creature will resolve before blockers are declared.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
The token created by the reflexive triggered ability copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on. If it is a Vehicle, it is not crewed.
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- #5· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied creature is a token, the 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.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied creature is copying something else, then the token enters as whatever that creature copied, with the listed exceptions.
Card named in this ruling
- #7· Wizards of the Coast
Any enters abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters. Any "as [this permanent] enters" or "[this permanent] enters with" abilities of the copied creature will also work.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Sandstorm Crasher + Combat Celebrant
- 1Declare Combat Celebrant and Sandstorm Crasher as attackers, choosing to exert Sandstorm Crasher and Combat Celebrant as they attack. Combat Celebrant and Sandstorm Crasher each trigger.
- 2Resolve the Sandstorm Crasher trigger, creating a token copy of Combat Celebrant that is tapped and attacking.
- 3Resolve the Combat Celebrant trigger, untapping all other creatures you control and causing you to get an additional combat phase after this one.
- 4Repeat during each combat phase using the Combat Celebrant token instead.
Sandstorm Crasher + Port Razer
- 1Declare Port Razer and Sandstorm Crasher as attackers, choosing to exert Sandstorm Crasher as it attacks.
- 2Sandstorm Crasher triggers, creating a token copy of Port Razer that is tapped and attacking.
- 3Deal combat damage using Port Razer, triggering Port Razer, untapping all creatures you control and causing you to get an additional combat phase after this one.
- 4Repeat during each combat phase.
Sandstorm Crasher + Aurelia, the Warleader
- 1Declare Aurelia and Sandstorm Crasher as attackers, choosing to exert Sandstorm Crasher as it attacks. Aurelia and Sandstorm Crasher each trigger.
- 2Resolve the Sandstorm Crasher trigger, creating a token copy of Aurelia that is tapped and attacking.
- 3Put the oldest Aurelia into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
- 4Resolve the Aurelia trigger, untapping all creatures you control and causing you to get an additional combat phase after this one.
- 5Repeat during each combat phase using the Aurelia token instead.
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