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    Striding Shotcaller // Run the Play

    Creature — Troll Druid // Sorcery

    Striding Shotcaller // Run the Play

    Illustrated by Brian Valeza

    EDHREC Rank #12,063
    Reach Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.) // Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to X target creatures. Those creatures gain flying until end of turn. Draw a card.

    Rulings (15)

    While copies of spells in zones other than the stack cease to exist when state-based actions are checked, this does not apply to copies of prepare spells in exile that were created as a creature became prepared.

    Mar 20, 2026

    Being prepared isn't a copiable value. If a permanent becomes a copy of a prepared creature, it won't be prepared. That permanent will have the alternative characteristics, though, and some other effect could cause it to become prepared later.

    Mar 20, 2026

    A creature with a prepare spell can't become prepared more than once at the same time. For example, Emeritus of Ideation is on the battlefield and is prepared. When it attacks, its last ability triggers. When that ability resolves, its controller may still exile eight cards from their graveyard, but doing so won't cause Emeritus of Ideation to become prepared a second time or create a second copy of Ancestral Recall in exile.

    Mar 20, 2026

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    Printings (2)

    Striding Shotcaller // Run the Play — Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
    SOC#50$0.18
    Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
    Striding Shotcaller // Run the Play — Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
    SOC#98$0.29
    Secrets of Strixhaven Commander