Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle: Legendary Creature - Kraken, Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{G}{U}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Legendary Creature - Kraken
- Colour identity
- Blue and green (UG)
- Power / toughness
- 12/12
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)
- Released
- 2024-09-27
- Collector number
- 211
- Artist
- Dimitar Marinski
- Commander rank
- 1,991 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Commander
- Can be your commander
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About Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue and green legendary creature from Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC), a Commander product released in September 2024. It is collector number 211 in that set, with art by Dimitar Marinski. It costs {2}{G}{U} (two generic, one blue and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It is a 12/12 creature. Its colour identity is blue and green. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Treasure Chest (2016) to Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (2024). It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.15 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Arixmethes enters tapped with five slumber counters on it.
As long as Arixmethes has a slumber counter on it, it's a land. (It's not a creature.)
Whenever you cast a spell, you may remove a slumber counter from Arixmethes.
{T}: Add {G}{U}.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.15 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Multiverse Legends (MUL) #162 | Rare | 2023 |
| Multiverse Legends (MUL) #162z | Rare | 2023 |
| Multiverse Legends (MUL) #32 | Rare | 2023 |
| Multiverse Legends (MUL) #97 | Rare | 2023 |
| Double Masters (2XM) #189 | Rare | 2020 |
| Treasure Chest (PZ2) #70715 | Rare | 2018 |
| Commander 2018 (C18) #38 | Rare | 2018 |
Official rulings
Seven official rulings apply to Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle, newest first.
- Arixmethes can tap for mana the turn it enters the battlefield as long as it has slumber counters on it. If you can figure out how to untap it, that is.
- Arixmethes isn't a land until after it has entered the battlefield. Effects such as that of Blood Moon won't affect its enters-the-battlefield ability. Similarly, replacement effects that modify how creatures you control enter the battlefield will see Arixmethes entering as a creature rather than a land. However, triggered abilities (such as landfall abilities) will see that a land has entered the battlefield and not a creature.
- Arixmethes can't be played as a land.
- While Arixmethes is a land, it's still green and blue, it's still legendary, and its mana value is still 4.
- Once Arixmethes is a creature again, it can attack on the same turn as long as you've controlled it since your most recent turn began.
- Arixmethes's effect causing it to be a land overwrites any earlier effects that gave it additional types. For example, a Phyrexian Metamorph that copies Arixmethes will be a land, not an artifact land, until its slumber counters are removed.
- Arixmethes's triggered ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger, but after targets have been chosen for that spell. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
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