Your Favorite Character 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
As the game begins, if Your Favorite Character is your commander, or as Your Favorite Character enters the battlefield if it's not your commander, name a character from the Magic storyline. Choose up to three colors, two creature types, and then two keywords from among vigilance, flying, haste, trample, and menace. Your Favorite Character has the chosen name, types, colors, and keywords.
Complete guide
Your Favorite Character is a unique Shapeshifter that allows you to customize your commander or creature exactly how you see fit. By naming a character and selecting specific colors, types, and keywords, you transform this blank slate into a legendary hero of your own design.
Defining Your Hero
This card features a replacement effect that happens either as the game begins (if it is your commander) or as it enters the battlefield. You must name a character from the Magic storyline and choose up to three colors, exactly two creature types, and exactly two keywords from the provided list: vigilance, flying, haste, trample, and menace. Because this happens as it enters, it does not use the stack and cannot be responded to once the spell begins to resolve.
Step-by-Step Resolution
1. If Your Favorite Character is your commander, you make all choices before the first turn begins. 2. If it is in your deck, you cast it for five mana. 3. As it moves from the stack to the battlefield, you choose the name, colors, types, and keywords. 4. The creature enters the battlefield already possessing those attributes, meaning it never exists on the battlefield as a colorless 0/0 Shapeshifter.
Common Pitfalls
Remember that you can only choose from the five specific keywords listed: vigilance, flying, haste, trample, and menace. You cannot choose 'Lifelink' or 'Indestructible.' Additionally, even if you choose new colors and types, Your Favorite Character remains a Legendary Creature and retains its original mana cost of five generic mana.
When to Play It
In Commander, this card is best used to fill a specific niche in your deck's strategy. By choosing types that synergize with your other cards, you can turn this into a tribal centerpiece or an evasive threat. Since it can be any three colors, it provides incredible flexibility for color-identity-based synergies.
Interaction examples
Roaming Throne1. You cast Your Favorite Character, naming 'Gerrard' and choosing 'Golem' as one of its two creature types. 2. You then cast Roaming Throne, choosing 'Golem' as it enters. 3. Because Your Favorite Character is now a Golem, Roaming Throne will cause any of its triggered abilities to trigger an additional time.
Solemn Simulacrum1. As Your Favorite Character enters, you choose 'Artifact' and 'Creature' as its types (if you wish to match themes) and give it 'Haste' and 'Trample.' 2. While it does not gain the abilities of Solemn Simulacrum, it can benefit from any board effects that buff Artifacts or Golems if you chose those specific identifiers during its entry.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Your Favorite Character
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
No additional ruling has been published for this card.
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