Body of Knowledge

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This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.

You have no maximum hand size.

Whenever this is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (12)

SufferFromEDHD on Arcanis Wins The Draw

2 months ago

Trickster Mage pauper Mind Over Matter

Thought Vessel > Spellbook

Body of Knowledge > Sturmgeist

skibulk on Nemesis Mask + Infiltration Lens

3 months ago

In the past, I have avoided using Psychosis Crawler since it bypasses interaction. It might be okay in this case. Your opponents are unlikely to have 10 creatures when you assemble the combo, so it'll usually take you a couple of attacks to knock everyone out.

Some things to consider: Urza's Saga, Trinket Mage, Renowned Weaponsmith, Grand Architect, Ornithopter of Paradise, Trophy Mage, Glint-Nest Crane, Ingenious Smith, Loyal Inventor, Body of Knowledge, Illusory Ambusher, The War Games, Combat Calligrapher, Kozilek's Command

legendofa on Help me to build a …

8 months ago

What kind of combo are you looking for?

Lock combos (something like Teferi's Puzzle Box + Notion ThiefGC or Arcane Laboratory + Knowledge Pool) are pretty close to Stax and tend to lead to saltiness, but are as control-combo as you can get.

Instant win combos (Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank or Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond, for example) end the game fast, but need to be supported a little more, especially if the pieces don't do much by themselves.

"Open-ended" non-infinite combos (Rona, Tolarian Obliterator  ^Flip + Pestilence + Body of Knowledge) are the least salt-inducing, as long as you can finish them in a reasonable time, but they might not close out the game.

SufferFromEDHD on I am Become Nezahal, Destroyer of Worlds

2 years ago

Decanter of Endless Water potential mana rock upgrade

Triskaidekaphile potential win con.

Body of Knowledge on theme beater.

Venser's Journal this is probably win more but life gain in mono blue is neat.

Dracoson on Interaction between Body of Knowledge …

3 years ago

As long as you start with more than one card in your hand (otherwise the first time Body of Knowledge is pinged, it will die before the card is drawn) and you do not play too many cards that turn (lest Body of Knowledge's toughness becomes equal to or less than the damage marked against it), it will work. From a practical standpoint, you'll need to track the damage in case it becomes relevant.

nhhale on Interaction between Body of Knowledge …

3 years ago

If Niv-Mizzet, Parun pings Body of Knowledge for 1 damage, you may draw a card which in activates Niv-Mizzet's ability again, allowing you to draw cards as many times as you ping Body of Knowledge for damage. However, Body of Knowledges' toughness depends on the number of cards in your hand. So the question is: When Body of Knowledges' toughness increases by 1 from taking damage from Niv-Mizzet and drawing a card, does this also increase the amount of damage needed to destroy it by 1? In other words, can this combo be used to draw as many cards cards as I want?

Omniscience_is_life on None

3 years ago

You can use double brackets like this:

[[Niv-Mizzet, Parun]]

To link to cards so everyone knows what you're talking about. For example: Niv-Mizzet, Parun, Body of Knowledge.

grennpowerhouse on The Ten Plagues: Locust God cEDH [PRIMER]

4 years ago

This deck is really well built good job

You have several small fry that is good early in the game (ie. Simian spirt guide, Spellseeker , Trinket Mage ) but later in the game might not be so good. Have you considered adding Mystic Reflection so later in the game you can have several Consecrated Sphinx and Jace's Archivist . That would be great because your tokens would also enter as copies of those creatures

With all of the small tokens you're creating maybe add Impact Tremors and/or Purphoros, God of the Forge

Also if you for a wheel sub-theme you may want to add cards such as Wheel of Misfortune , Magus of the Wheel , Tolarian Winds , and Forgotten Creation .

For card draw Rhystic Study , Bident of Thassa , and Curiosity Crafter

with all of this card draw maybe Thought Vessel , Reliquary Tower , Spellbook , and Venser's Journal

Annnnnndddd some more great cards are Chasm Skulker , Body of Knowledge , Enter the infinte, The Magic Mirror and Finale of Revelation

BTW thanks for the upvote