Genestealer Patriarch
Current paper retail
ManaPool$0.20
Card Kingdom$0.49
Cardmarket€0.32
TCGplayer$0.37
MTGO (Cardhoarder)
retail$0.22 tix
90-day paper retail (USD)
3 providers
This printing
Set40K
Collector #22
Released2022-10-07
Rarityrare
ArtistGames Workshop
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Genestealer Patriarch

RareColour IDMV 5
Creature — Tyranid
Genestealer's Kiss — Whenever this creature attacks, put an infection counter on target creature defending player controls.
Children of the Cult — Whenever a creature with an infection counter on it dies, you create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's a Tyranid in addition to its other types.
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Keywords
Genestealer's KissChildren of the Cult
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
1 other English printingEarliest 2022-10-07Newest 2022-10-07Cheapest priced $0.76 in 40K
Rulings (6)
wotc7 Oct 2022
Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the creature will also work.
wotc7 Oct 2022
If you control more than one Genestealer Patriarch as a creature with an infection counter on it dies, each one's ability will trigger, and you will make two tokens that are copies of it.
wotc7 Oct 2022
If the copied creature had {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
wotc7 Oct 2022
The token copies the creature as it last existed on the battlefield before it died, not as it exists in the graveyard.
wotc7 Oct 2022
The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature was tapped or untapped, whether it had any counters on it or Auras or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that had changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.
wotc7 Oct 2022
If the copied creature was copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.