Xavier Sal, Infested Captain (Commander: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan) Near Mint

Captain of Fungus and Fleet

Xavier Sal, Infested Captain is a compact commander that trades tempo for exponential value. The card rewards careful token and counter management. With a tap ability to remove a counter and populate you can turn a single creature token into a new attacker or blocker while preserving your key counters. The second tap ability turns a sacrificial outlet into a repeatable proliferate engine that accelerates +1 counters, loyalty counters and poison counters across the board.

In play Xavier Sal functions as a toolbox leader. Use the populate trigger to replenish tokens after board trades and use the proliferate line when you control token generators or planeswalkers that benefit from incremental growth. The creature reads as a 3 3 commander built for attrition and incremental advantage. It pairs well with token makers and cards that let you move counters around without overextending into board wipes.

Card Details:

• Mana Cost: {B}{B}{U}
• Card Type: Legendary Creature
• Subtypes: Human Fungus Pirate
• Card Text / Rules Text (Printed): {T}, Remove a counter from another permanent you control: Populate. Activate only as a sorcery. (Create a token that is a copy of a creature token you control.)
• Card Text / Rules Text (Printed): {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Proliferate. Activate only as a sorcery. (Choose any number of permanents and or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
• Power / Toughness: 3/3