Card
Asmodeus the Archfiend
Mana cost {4}{B}{B}
Legendary Creature — Devil God 6/6
Binding Contract — If you would draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down instead. {B}{B}{B}: Draw seven cards. {B}: Return all cards exiled with Asmodeus to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 18 known combos. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · AFR · #88
- Cheapest printing
- €0.28
- EDHREC salt
- 0.43
- Color identity
- Black
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
18 known combos.
- Asmodeus the Archfiend + Necrotic Ooze + Skirge Familiar
Produces: Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Infinite looting
View on Commander Spellbook - Asmodeus the Archfiend + Necrotic Ooze + K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth + Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Produces: Infinite card draw, Near-infinite lifegain, Near-infinite lifegain triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Koh, the Face Stealer + Asmodeus the Archfiend + Skirge Familiar
Produces: Infinite self-discard triggers, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite black mana
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2021-07-23 · Wizards of the Coast
If a card is exiled face-down and no player has been given permission to look at it, no player is allowed to look at it as long as it remains exiled face-down. - 2021-07-23 · Wizards of the Coast
If your library is empty, no cards will be exiled but you won't lose the game due to drawing from an empty library. - 2021-07-23 · Wizards of the Coast
If Asmodeus the Archfiend leaves the battlefield before you activate its last ability, any cards exiled by its replacement effect remain exiled face down for the rest of the game. If you somehow return the same Asmodeus the Archfiend card to the battlefield, it will be a different object with no connection to those face-down cards.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast