Moonlit Commander
Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon rewards aggressive timing and tight combat sequencing. With a casting cost of {1}{R}{W} this Legendary Creature excels when you lead with creatures that are not Gnomes. Each successful attack places a +1/+1 counter on Anim Pakal and then generates a swarm equal to the current counters. The tokens arrive tapped and attacking which makes this card a reliable engine for pressure and board presence during the combat step.
As a Human Soldier with a 1/2 body Anim Pakal functions best in decks that can protect and grow it quickly while pushing through damage. The design encourages an attuned strategy where incremental growth compounds into a sudden turn where multiple attacking bodies appear. In Lost Caverns of Ixalan lore Anim Pakal channels a cyclical vigilance that ties personal fortitude to the community of automatons it rallies.
Card Details:
- Mana Cost – {1}{R}{W}
- Card Type – Legendary Creature
- Subtypes – Human Soldier
- Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Whenever you attack with one or more non-Gnome creatures, put a +1/+1 counter on Anim Pakal, then create X 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature tokens that are tapped and attacking, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Anim Pakal.
- Power / Toughness – 1/2