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Athreos, God of Passage

Athreos, God of Passage

{1}{W}{B}

Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

Indestructible

As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature.

Whenever another creature you own dies, return it to your hand unless target opponent pays 3 life.

5/4

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Journey into NyxJourney into Nyx#146·Mythic·English
Oct 23, 2026
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Rulings

Apr 26, 2014

You are a creature’s owner if the card representing it began the game in your deck, or if it’s a token that entered the battlefield under your control.

Apr 26, 2014

Athreos’s last ability will trigger if a token creature you own dies. The target opponent has the option to pay 3 life, although the token can’t return to your hand.

Apr 26, 2014

It doesn’t matter who controlled the creature when it died. Athreos’s last ability will trigger if you owned that creature.

Apr 26, 2014

The target opponent chooses whether to pay 3 life when Athreos’s last ability resolves. You won’t return the card to your hand if that player pays 3 life or if the card leaves the graveyard before the ability resolves.

Apr 26, 2014

If there are no legal targets for Athreos’s last ability (perhaps because each of your opponents has hexproof), it will be removed from the stack with no effect. No one may pay 3 life and you won’t return the creature card to your hand.

Apr 26, 2014

The type-changing ability that can make the God not be a creature functions only on the battlefield. It’s always a creature card in other zones, regardless of your devotion to its color.

Apr 26, 2014

If a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color (including the mana symbols in the mana cost of the God itself) will determine if a creature entered the battlefield or not, for abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield.

Apr 26, 2014

If a God stops being a creature, it loses the type creature and all creature subtypes. It continues to be a legendary enchantment.

Apr 26, 2014

The abilities of Gods function as long as they’re on the battlefield, regardless of whether they’re creatures.

Apr 26, 2014

If a God is attacking or blocking and it stops being a creature, it will be removed from combat.

Apr 26, 2014

If a God is dealt damage, then stops being a creature, then becomes a creature again later in the same turn, the damage will still be marked on it. This is also true for any effects that were affecting the God when it was originally a creature. (Note that in most cases, the damage marked on the God won’t matter because it has indestructible.)

Apr 26, 2014

Your devotion to two colors is equal to the number of mana symbols that are the first color, the second color, or both colors among the mana costs of permanents you control. Specifically, a hybrid mana symbol counts only once toward your devotion to its two colors. For example, if the only nonland permanents you control are Pharika, God of Affliction and Golgari Guildmage (whose mana cost is {B/G}{B/G}), your devotion to black and green is four.

Apr 26, 2014

Numeric mana symbols ({0}, {1}, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don’t count toward your devotion to any color.

Apr 26, 2014

Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don’t count toward your devotion to any color.

Apr 26, 2014

Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).