Card
Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar
Mana cost {1}{W}{B}{B} // {6}{B}{R}
Legendary Creature — Human Warlock // Sorcery
Double strike Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to your hand. // As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each creature sacrificed this way. Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. Create a 3/6 black and red Avatar creature token with haste and "Whenever this token attacks, it deals 3 damage to each opponent."
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 60 known combos. 10 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · STX · #149
- Cheapest printing
- €0.80
- EDHREC salt
- 0.15
- Color identity
- Black, Red, White
- Keywords
- Magecraft, Double strike
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
60 known combos.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
If an effect creates multiple copies of an instant or sorcery spell, magecraft abilities trigger once for each copy created by the effect. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
The Blood Avatar will be awakened even if no player has creatures to sacrifice when it resolves. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
Awaken the Blood Avatar’s first ability can’t reduce its cost below {B}{R}. However, you can sacrifice any number of creatures, even if they won’t reduce its cost any further. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
Each magecraft ability has a different effect, although they all have the same trigger condition, whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
For example, if you control Archmage Emeritus and cast an instant or sorcery spell, Archmage Emeritus’s magecraft ability will trigger and you will draw a card. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
Some effects instruct you to copy an instant or sorcery card in a zone other than the stack. These copies do not cause magecraft abilities to trigger. However, most effects that do this also allow you to cast the copy, and casting the copy will cause magecraft abilities to trigger. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
If an effect creates a copy of an instant or sorcery spell, this will also cause the magecraft ability to trigger. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
As Awaken the Blood Avatar resolves, first the next opponent in turn order (or, if it’s an opponent’s turn, the opponent whose turn it is) chooses a creature they control, then each other opponent in turn order does the same knowing the choices made before them. Then all the chosen creatures are sacrificed at the same time. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
Returning a nonlegendary creature card is not optional. If there is at least one in your graveyard, you must target it with the magecraft ability. - 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
Include any additional costs to cast Awaken the Blood Avatar before applying its own cost reduction. For example, if Extus is your commander, and an additional cost of {6} applies from the “commander tax,” you may cast Awaken the Blood Avatar by sacrificing four creatures and paying {4}{B}{R}.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast