The Pride of Hull Clade 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
This spell costsless to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control. Defender
: Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0, gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its toughness," and can attack as though it didn't have defender.
How it works : The Pride of Hull Clade
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
The first step of casting a spell is to move it to the stack. If this causes the total toughness of creatures you control to change (perhaps because you control a creature whose toughness is determined by the number of cards in your hand), that new toughness will be used to determine the cost reduction.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Once you determine the cost to cast The Pride of Hull Clade, you may activate mana abilities to pay that cost. If the total toughness of creatures you control changes while activating mana abilities, the cost to cast The Pride of Hull Clade remains what you previously determined.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
The Pride of Hull Clade's mana value doesn't change no matter what the total toughness of creatures you control is.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
The Pride of Hull Clade's cost reduction ability can't reduce the total cost to cast the spell below
.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Once you announce you're casting a spell, no player may take actions until the spell has been paid for. Notably, opponents can't try to reduce the total toughness of creatures you control.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
If the target of The Pride of Hull Clade's last ability deals combat damage to a player but leaves the battlefield before the granted triggered ability resolves, use its toughness as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how many cards to draw.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
The Pride of Hull Clade + Body of Research
- 1Cast Body of Research by paying
, creating a 0/0 Fractal creature token, and then putting a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to your deck size.
- 2Give the Fractal token haste.
- 3Activate The Pride of Hull Clade by paying
, targeting the Fractal.
- 4Deal combat damage to an opponent using the Fractal token.
- 5The Fractal triggers, causing you to draw cards equal to its toughness.
The Pride of Hull Clade + Phyrexian Altar + The Skullspore Nexus
- 1Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing The Pride of Hull Clade, adding
.
- 2Choose to return The Pride of Hull Clade from your graveyard to the command zone.
- 3When The Pride of Hull Clade dies, The Skullspore Nexus triggers, creating a 2/2 Fungus Dinosaur creature token.
- 4Cast The Pride of Hull Clade from the command zone by paying
, as its cost will be reduced by the toughness of creatures you control.
- 5Repeat.
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