Card
Underworld Breach
Mana cost {1}{R}
Each nonland card in your graveyard has escape. The escape cost is equal to the card's mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast cards from your graveyard for their escape cost.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this enchantment.
Game Changer: not allowed in brackets 1–2, counts as one of the three allowed in bracket 3. Part of 396 known combos, one of them two-card. 10 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Game Changer
- On the official list — none allowed in brackets 1–2, at most three in bracket 3.
- Printing
- Rare · THB · #161
- Cheapest printing
- €6.58
- EDHREC salt
- 1.81
- Color identity
- Red
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — not allowed: Game Changers are not allowed
- B2 Core — not allowed: Game Changers are not allowed
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partner: Path of the Pyromancer
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- On the official Game Changers list
- Two-card combo with Path of the Pyromancer (early with Path of the Pyromancer)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
396 known combos, one of them two-card.
- Underworld Breach + Lotus Petal + Brain Freeze
Produces: Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite magecraft triggers, Near-infinite mill
View on Commander Spellbook - Underworld Breach + Lion's Eye Diamond + Brain Freeze
Produces: Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite colored mana, Near-infinite magecraft triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Underworld Breach + Wheel of Fortune + Jeska's Will
Produces: Infinite draw triggers for all players, Infinite looting for all players, Near-infinite magecraft triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
After an escaped spell resolves, it returns to its owner's graveyard if it's not a permanent spell. If it is a permanent spell, it enters the battlefield and will return to its owner's graveyard if it dies later. Perhaps it will escape again—good underworld security is so hard to come by these days. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
If a card has no mana cost, its escape cost is an unpayable cost, so you can't cast it for that cost. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
Once you begin casting a spell with escape, it immediately moves to the stack. Players can't take any other actions until you're done casting the spell. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
If a card has multiple abilities giving you permission to cast it, such as two escape abilities or an escape ability and a flashback ability, you choose which one to apply. The others have no effect. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
Escape's permission doesn't change when you may cast the spell from your graveyard. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
If you're casting an adventurer card or split card with escape, you choose how you wish to cast it, then pay the appropriate cost (for the Adventure, the creature, or the half of the split card you chose) plus exiling three cards. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
If a card with escape is put into your graveyard during your turn, you'll be able to cast it right away if it's legal to do so, before an opponent can take any actions. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
If you cast a spell with its escape permission, you can't choose to apply any other alternative costs or to cast it without paying its mana cost. If it has any additional costs, you must pay those. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
If a spell you're casting with escape has an additional cost of discarding cards or sacrificing permanents, you may exile cards discarded or sacrificed this way to pay that part of its escape cost. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an escape cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was and no matter whether an alternative cost was paid.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast