First printed in Rise of the Eldrazi (2010)
Creature — Human Shaman
Level up (
: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)
LEVEL 2-5
1/1: Create a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
LEVEL 6+
1/1: Create two 3/3 green Elephant creature tokens.
1/1
- Illustrated by
- Mike Bierek
Legality
- Legal in
- Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Penny Dreadful, Commander, Duel Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (5)
- If another creature becomes a copy of a leveler, all of the leveler’s printed abilities — including those represented by level symbols — are copied. The current characteristics of the leveler, and the number of level counters on it, are not. The abilities, power, and toughness of the copy will be determined based on how many level counters are on the copy.
- Effects that modify a leveler’s power or toughness, such as the effects of Giant Growth or Glorious Anthem, will apply to it no matter when they started to take effect. The same is true for counters that change the creature’s power or toughness (such as +1/+1 counters) and effects that switch its power and toughness.
- Effects that set a leveler’s power or toughness to a specific value, including the effects from a level symbol’s ability, apply in timestamp order. The timestamp of each level symbol’s ability is the same as the timestamp of the leveler itself, regardless of when the most recent level counter was put on it.
- A creature’s level is based on how many level counters it has on it, not how many times its level up ability has been activated or has resolved. If a leveler gets level counters due to some other effect (such as Clockspinning) or loses level counters for some reason (such as Vampire Hexmage), its level is changed accordingly.
- The abilities a leveler grants to itself don’t overwrite any other abilities it may have. In particular, they don’t overwrite the creature’s level up ability; it always has that.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
5 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB…: Intruder Alarm + Kazandu Tuskcaller
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB: Coercive Recruiter + Conspiracy + Kazandu Tuskcaller
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB: Coercive Recruiter + Kazandu Tuskcaller + Xenograft
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB: Arcane Adaptation + Coercive Recruiter + Kazandu Tuskcaller
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB: Coercive Recruiter + Kazandu Tuskcaller + Maskwood Nexus