Card

Peer into the Abyss

Mana cost {4}{B}{B}{B}

Sorcery

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Part of 38 known combos, 22 of them two-card. 2 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · M21 · #117
Cheapest printing
€1.54
EDHREC salt
0.98
Color identity
Black

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

Why

  • Two-card combo with Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Orcish Bowmasters, Underworld Dreams, Psychosis Crawler, Nekusar, the Mindrazer, Razorkin Needlehead, Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted, Bloodletter of Aclazotz, Alhammarret's Archive, Teferi's Ageless Insight, Psychic Corrosion, Folio of Fancies, Black Vise, Feast of Sanity, Vnwxt, Verbose Host, Astarion, the Decadent, Blitzwing, Cruel Tormentor // Blitzwing, Adaptive Assailant, Twenty-Toed Toad, Thought Reflection, Aether Syphon, Bard, King of Dale, Eruth, Tormented Prophet (none of them early)

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

38 known combos, 22 of them two-card.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2020-06-23 · Wizards of the Coast
    The life lost is rounded up, not the remaining life total. For example, if the target player has 7 life, they lose 4 life and end up with 3. Similarly, the number of cards drawn is rounded up, not the number of cards remaining in the library.
  • 2020-06-23 · Wizards of the Coast
    To draw the cards, first the player determines how many cards to draw, then draws them. This event may be modified so that a different number of cards are actually drawn.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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