---
name: "Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor"
mana_cost: "{1}{B}{B}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor"
colors: []
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: []
set: "MB2"
set_name: "Mystery Booster 2"
collector_number: "245"
rarity: "mythic"
artist: "Anna Podedworna"
oracle_id: "928d977e-cff0-4e0e-83bb-16d73a754f35"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/gix-yawgmoth-praetor-mb2"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{B}{B}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor

## Oracle Text
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card.
{4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Gixian Puppeteer](/printing/gixian-puppeteer-bro.md) — Creature — Phyrexian Warlock
2. [Phyrexian Gargantua](/printing/phyrexian-gargantua-cmm.md) — Creature — Phyrexian Horror
3. [Disciples of Gix](/printing/disciples-of-gix-bro.md) — Creature — Phyrexian Human
4. [Ob Nixilis Reignited](/printing/ob-nixilis-reignited-dsc.md) — Legendary Planeswalker — Nixilis
5. [Grenzo, Havoc Raiser](/printing/grenzo-havoc-raiser-tdc.md) — Legendary Creature — Goblin Rogue
6. [Ruin Processor](/printing/ruin-processor-bfz.md) — Creature — Eldrazi Processor

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Mystery Booster 2 (MB2) #245
- **Rarity:** Mythic
- **Artist:** Anna Podedworna
- **Total Printings:** 8 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2022-10-14)* You must play the cards as you resolve the last ability. You can't wait and play them later.
- *(2022-10-14)* If a spell you cast this way has an {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 for X.
- *(2022-10-14)* You may play a land this way only during your own turn and only if you have not yet played a land this turn.