Ruxa, Patient Professor

Legendary Creature — Bear Druid

Whenever this enters the battlefield or attacks, return target creature card with no abilities from your graveyard to your hand.

Creatures you control with no abilities get +1/+1.

You may have creatures you control with no abilities assign their combat damage as though they weren't blocked.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (18)

TijuanaBachelorParty on Vanilla is a Good Flavor

3 months ago

Thanks, glad you like the deck xram666.

I plan to keep the text boxes completely empty so that does restrict the use of cards like Ruxa, Patient Professor or Jasmine Boreal of the Seven. Perhaps someday we can get these effects on an artifact or enchantment!

xram666 on Vanilla is a Good Flavor

3 months ago

Really appreciate the effort to make playing magic not that complicate ;-). +1 from me.

I know it doesn't fit the flavor of the deck perfectly, but Ruxa, Patient Professor seems like an auto include in this type of strategy.

seshiro_of_the_orochi on the POWER of the Tree Frog

3 months ago

This looks super fun, great job! You have quite a few spells that target your stuff, so why not give Season of Growth a shot? Also, this seems like a great deck to include Rite of Consumption. And finally, for an unusual pick, Ruxa, Patient Professor has some serious synergy with your commander.

TheMeadiator on Yargle says size matters. *C*

10 months ago

Oh my gosh, Ruxa, Patient Professor is so good with this!! Terrifying. Any thought on damage doublers like Unnatural Growth? Given your set up, it's more than likely to be a one hit kill. Just a thought!

legendofa on Wide, Wider, Widest

1 year ago

These suggestions are my eyeball guesses and not any sort of optimization, but I would cut Ruxa, Patient Professor and either Access Denied or Mouth / Feed for two doublers.

For Ruxa, a lot of your tokens have incidental abilities like flying and reach, and it has no interaction with any nontoken creatures. Once something like Combine Chrysalis or Esix, Fractal Bloom comes out, it's a generic 4/4.

For the other one, this is conditional on how often you have {3}{U}{U} available to counter a spell vs. how often you have 3+ creatures with power 3 or greater, and whether countering is more important than drawing in this deck.

Artizan81 on Does Ruxa work with instant …

2 years ago

Thank you very much.

This confirms the idea I had of it. It's a good point for Ring of Xathrid; as well to protect a vanilla creature as to protect Ruxa, Patient Professor

Artizan81 on Does Ruxa work with instant …

2 years ago

Ruxa, Patient Professor

golgarigirl on Esix, the Fractal BOOM

2 years ago

I'm not sure if you got the precon or not, but a few of the cards from it are real gems for this deck!

Adrix and Nev, Twincasters can duplicate the number of tokens you get just like any of the other doubling season effects. Any of these effects copy the effect that makes the token, so the token would still enter with whatever number of counters the origin of the effect would make.

Curiosity Crafter is a token-specific Reconnaissance Mission / Coastal Piracy - style effect. If you're able to consistently make large enough tokens, Garruk's Uprising and Elemental Bond are also excellent options.

Ruxa, Patient Professor is amazing with Fractals! Ignore the first paragraph...the second and third line are gold. And that third line helps us get that sweet value from the Curiosity Crafter-style draw spells.

Don't be afraid of instant-speed draw like Eureka Moment and Growth Spiral . They may look unimpressive, but they perform way better than they look. Return of the Wildspeaker would also likely be awesome in your deck, with a bunch of very large non-humans. Perplexing Test has also performed very well in my token deck.

I'm going to call out Full Flowering and any other token copiers as cards that might not perform very well, since those don't replicate the +1/+1 counters on your 0/0 tokens. Biomass Mutation is an absolute house in here, especially with any form of evasion, like Ruxa, trample from Garruk's Uprising, or the flying from Combine Chrysalis .