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

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Sarkhan.png
Full Name Sarkhan the Mad
Aliases S1
Affinities BlackRed
Origin set Oath of the Gatewatch Oath of the Gatewatch
Cost 650 Mana Crystals
Stats (max level)
Health 119
Deck limits Creatures 9  ·  Spells 7  ·  Supports 6
Mana bonuses Icon W.png +1 · Icon U.png +1 · Icon B.png+2 · Icon R.png+2 · Icon G.png +1
Leveling cost 160,720 Mana Runes
Planeswalkers   (Infobox · Data)
Planeswalker series
Sarkhan Vol (human)
Sarkhan the Mad S1 BlackRed Sarkhan the Mad
Sarkhan, Fireblood S2 Red Sarkhan, Fireblood
Sarkhan Unbroken S3 BlueRedGreen Sarkhan Unbroken

He has higher than average health and high deck limits with a focus on Creatures. He has a very balanced spread of mana bonuses: all of them are +1 except for his colors of Black and Red at +2. Like his fellow OGW Planeswalkers he has a combined mana bonus below normal; dual color PWs usually have eight total, but he has seven. Like other OGW and Battle for Zendikar Planeswalkers, he has only Origins cards in his Starting Deck.

His abilities have a dragon theme, including replacing one of his creatures with a dragon creature TokenToken, and creating a support TokenToken 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 Vol at different points in his life.

Contents

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 Token  with Flying .
  30-45 9 Destroy one of your creatures and summon 1 4/4 Red Dragon Token  with Flying .
  46-57 9 Destroy one of your creatures and summon 1 5/5 Red Dragon Token  with Flying .
  58-60 9 Destroy one of your creatures and summon 1 6/6 Red Dragon Token  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."

>> Sarkhan, Fireblood's story
>> Sarkhan Unbroken's story


Starting Deck