Sarkhan the Mad

Sarkhan the Mad
Full Name	Sarkhan the Mad
Aliases	S1
Affinities
Origin set	Oath of the Gatewatch
Cost	650
Stats (max level)
Health	119
Deck limits	9  ·   7  ·   6
Mana bonuses	+1 ·  +1 ·  +2 ·  +2 ·  +1
Leveling cost	160,720
Planeswalkers   (Infobox · Data)

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Overview

Sarkhan the Mad is a black and red human Planeswalker, introduced in June 2016 along with the Oath of the Gatewatch card set.

He has higher than average health, average high mana gains with a very balanced spread, and high deck limits with a focus on Creatures.

His abilities have a dragon theme, including replacing one of his creatures with a dragon creature token, and creating a support token which deal damage when his dragons attack. He also has a cheap card draw ability.

Sarkhan the Mad, sometimes called S1, is the first of three playable Planeswalkers in MtGPQ which embody Sarkhan at different points in his life.

Stats

Sarkhan the Mad - level 60
Mana bonus						Deck limits			Health	Leveling cost
+1	+1	+2	+2	+1	0	9	7	6	119	160,720

All level details 1-60													Click to
Level cost		Mana bonus							Deck limits				Health		Abilities
															1	2	3
1-5 1220		-1	-1	+1	+1	-1	0		6	3	1		32
									6	3	3
													35
		-1	-1	+2	+1	-1	0
													38
6-10 4580
													41
									6	5	3
													44
		-1	-1	+2	+2	-1	0
11-15 9260													47
													50
									7	5	3
													53
16-20 15640		-1	0	+2	+2	-1	0
													56
													59
									7	5	4
21-25 23690													62
		0	0	+2	+2	-1	0
													65
													68
26-30 33380									7	6	4
													71
		0	0	+2	+2	0	0
													74
31-35 44660													77
									8	6	4
													80
		0	+1	+2	+2	0	0
													83
36-40 57530
													86
									8	6	5
													89
41-45 71960													92
		+1	+1	+2	+2	0	0
													95
									8	7	5
													98
46-50 87920
													101
		+1	+1	+2	+2	+1	0
													104
									9	7	5
51-55 112320													107
													110
									9	7	6
													113
56-60 160720
													116
													119

Abilities

1: Fiery Sacrifice
Ability Level	PW level		Effect
	6-23	6	Draw 1 card and lose 3 life.
	24-39	6	Draw 1 card and lose 2 life.
	40-55	6	Draw 1 card and lose 1 life.
	56-60	3	Draw 1 card and lose 1 life.

2: Call Dragon
Ability Level	PW level		Effect
	12-29	9	Destroy one of your creatures and summon 1 3/3 Red Dragon with Flying.
	30-45	9	Destroy one of your creatures and summon 1 4/4 Red Dragon with Flying.
	46-57	9	Destroy one of your creatures and summon 1 5/5 Red Dragon with Flying.
	58-60	9	Destroy one of your creatures and summon 1 6/6 Red Dragon with Flying.

3: Fiery Breath
Ability Level	PW level		Effect
	18-35	18	When your Dragons attack this turn, they deal damage equal to their Power to the opponent.
	36-51	18	When your Dragons attack this turn, they deal damage equal to their Power times 2 to the opponent.
	52-59	18	When your Dragons attack this turn, they deal damage equal to their Power times 3 to the opponent.
	60	18	When your Dragons attack this turn, they deal damage equal to their Power times 4 to the opponent.

Story

The dragon-worshipping Planeswalker Sarkhan Vol is a native of Tarkir, where dragons had gone extinct long before his birth. Obsessed with their fury and predatory majesty, Sarkhan learned as much as he could about his world's ancient dragons, even going so far as to join a group of infamous shamans who venerated the apex predators. He had a talent for battle and gained status as a warrior in the Mardu clan, but he soon tired of the petty quarrels of the battlefield.

After one victory against a rival clan, Sarkhan had an experience that changed his life: "The spirit of a long-dead dragon appeared to him, whispered a spell into his mind, and then vanished forever. With the incantation of the spell, a huge dragon made of fire streaked out of Sarkhan's body and invaded the battle, blasting the battlefield with a torrent of fire. Fascinated, Sarkhan watched as his men and those of his enemy were burned to Cinders. It was a display of ultimate rage and power that surpassed anything he had ever seen. It stoked a passion in him that had never before flared to life, and along with it, his Planeswalker spark."—From the novel Alara Unbroken by Doug Beyer

Thereafter, Sarkhan traveled from plane to plane, looking for a dragon to whom he could dedicate his life. On Jund, a shard of the plane of Alara, he found a land ruled by tyrannical hellkites and other mighty dragons. There, he declared his fealty to the dragon Planeswalker Nicol Bolas.

Disillusioned by his servitude to the villainous, conniving, woefully undragonlike Bolas, Sarkhan fell into madness. He was led back to Tarkir by a voice in his mind, a voice he believed belonged to the long-dead spirit dragon Ugin. At the spot where Ugin died, aided by the Jeskai khan Narset at the cost of her life, Sarkhan found what he did not even know he was seeking: a way to travel back through time to the moment of Ugin's death at Nicol Bolas's hands and prevent the spirit dragon from falling. Instantly pulled back to the present, Sarkhan found himself in a world ruled by mighty Dragonlords, a world in which both Ugin and Narset were still alive.

The Tarkir of Sarkhan's birth, the world that seemed to him bereft of dragons, is gone. In its place is a vibrant world where dragons fill the skies. Sarkhan himself is now utterly unique, free in ways that few people are: a man who was never born, a Planeswalker without a home world, a human who can take the form of a dragon. Most importantly, his mind is once again his own, free of the influences of both Bolas and Ugin.