Card

Red Death, Shipwrecker

Mana cost {U}{R}

Legendary Creature — Crab Mutant 1/3

Alluring Eyes — {T}: Goad target creature an opponent controls. That player draws a card. You add {R}. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 67 known combos. 6 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · PIP · #116
Cheapest printing
€0.27
EDHREC salt
0.06
Color identity
Red, Blue
Keywords
Alluring Eyes, Goad

Scryfall · EDHREC

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

67 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2024-03-08 · Wizards of the Coast
    Being goaded isn’t an ability the creature has. Once it’s been goaded, it must attack as detailed above even if it loses all abilities.
  • 2024-03-08 · Wizards of the Coast
    If the target creature is an illegal target as Red Death’s ability tries to resolve, it won’t resolve and none of its effects happen. You won’t add any mana, and the creature’s controller won’t draw a card.
  • 2024-03-08 · Wizards of the Coast
    If, during a player’s declare attackers step, a creature that player controls that’s been goaded is tapped, is affected by a spell or ability that says it can’t attack, or hasn’t been under that player’s control continuously since the turn began (and doesn’t have haste), then it doesn’t attack. If there’s a cost associated with having a creature attack a player, its controller isn’t forced to pay that cost, so it doesn’t have to attack that player.
  • 2024-03-08 · Wizards of the Coast
    If the creature doesn’t meet any of the above exceptions and can attack, it must attack a player other than the controller of the spell or ability that goaded it if able. If the creature can’t attack any of those players but could otherwise attack, it must attack a planeswalker an opponent controls, a battle an opponent protects, or the player that goaded it.
  • 2024-03-08 · Wizards of the Coast
    Red Death’s ability isn’t a mana ability even though it causes you to add mana. It uses the stack and can be responded to.
  • 2024-03-08 · Wizards of the Coast
    Attacking with a goaded creature doesn’t cause it to stop being goaded. If there is an additional combat phase that turn, or if another player gains control of it before it stops being goaded, it must attack again if able.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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