Sludge Strider 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
Whenever another artifact you control enters or leaves the battlefield, you may pay. If you do, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
How it works : Sludge Strider
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If Sludge Strider and another artifact enter under your control at the same time, Sludge Strider's triggered ability will trigger. Similarly, if Sludge Strider and another artifact you control leave the battlefield at the same time, Sludge Strider's triggered ability will trigger.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If an artifact creature with 0 toughness enters under your control, Sludge Strider's ability will trigger a total of twice: Once when that creature enters, and once when it's put into a graveyard. Both abilities will be put on the stack after the state-based action check that puts the 0-toughness creature into the graveyard is finished.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer + Mysterious Limousine + Sludge Strider + Krark-Clan Ironworks
- 1Activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing Mysterious Limousine, adding
. - 2Sludge Strider triggers, causing you to pay to gain 1 life and cause an opponent to lose 1 life.
- 3Ratchet, Field Medic triggers, converting it into Ratchet, Rescue Racer, and returning Mysterious Limousine from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 4When Mysterious Limousine enters the battlefield, it and Sludge Strider trigger.
- 5Resolve the Mysterious Limousine trigger, exiling Ratchet until Mysterious Limousine leaves the battlefield.
- 6Resolve the Sludge Strider trigger, choosing not to pay.
- 7Activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing Mysterious Limousine, adding .
- 8When Mysterious Limousine leaves the battlefield, Ratchet returns to the battlefield from exile as Ratchet, Field Medic.
Legal formats
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