Wingmantle Chaplain 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
Defender When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying for each creature with defender you control. Whenever another creature you control with defender enters, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.
How it works : Wingmantle Chaplain
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Count the number of creatures with defender you control as the second ability resolves to determine how many Bird tokens you create. If Wingmantle Chaplain’s still under your control at that time, it will count itself.
Card named in this ruling
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If Wingmantle Chaplain enters the battlefield under your control at the same time as other creatures with defender, the second ability will trigger once and the last ability will trigger once for each of those other creatures.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar + Wingmantle Chaplain
- 1Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Wingmantle Chaplain, adding
. - 2Wingmantle Chaplain dies, triggering Nim Deathmantle, causing you to pay
to return Wingmantle Chaplain from your graveyard to the battlefield, and attach Nim Deathmantle to it. - 3When Wingmantle Chaplain enters the battlefield, its first ability triggers, creating at least two 1/1 Bird creature tokens.
- 4Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing a Bird, adding .
- 5Repeat.
Nim Deathmantle + Phyrexian Altar + Wingmantle Chaplain
- 1Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Wingmantle Chaplain, adding
. - 2Wingmantle Chaplain dies, triggering Nim Deathmantle, causing you to pay to return Wingmantle Chaplain from your graveyard to the battlefield, and attach Nim Deathmantle to it.
- 3When Wingmantle Chaplain enters the battlefield, its first ability triggers, creating at least four 1/1 Bird creature tokens.
- 4Activate Phyrexian Altar three times by sacrificing three Birds, adding
. - 5Repeat.
Dormant Sliver + Wingmantle Chaplain + Maskwood Nexus + Savage Summoning
- 1Cast Wingmantle Chaplain by paying
. - 2Wingmantle Chaplain's ETB ability and Dormant Sliver each trigger.
- 3Resolve Dormant Sliver's trigger, drawing a card.
- 4Resolve Wingmantle Chaplain's trigger, creating a 1/1 Sliver token with defender for each creature with defender you control.
- 5Wingmantle Chaplain's last ability and Dormant Sliver each trigger once for each token created; put them on the stack in any order.
- 6Resolve a Dormant Sliver trigger, drawing a card.
- 7Resolve a Wingmantle Chaplain trigger, creating a 1/1 Sliver token with defender.
- 8Repeat steps 5 through 7 until there are no cards in your library.
Dormant Sliver + Wingmantle Chaplain + Hivestone + Savage Summoning
- 1Cast Wingmantle Chaplain by paying .
- 2Wingmantle Chaplain's ETB ability and Dormant Sliver each trigger.
- 3Resolve Dormant Sliver's trigger, drawing a card.
- 4Resolve Wingmantle Chaplain's trigger, creating a 1/1 Sliver token with defender for each creature with defender you control.
- 5Wingmantle Chaplain's last ability and Dormant Sliver each trigger once for each token created; put them on the stack in any order.
- 6Resolve a Dormant Sliver trigger, drawing a card.
- 7Resolve a Wingmantle Chaplain trigger, creating a 1/1 Sliver token with defender.
- 8Repeat steps 5 through 7 until there are no cards in your library.
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