Card
The Cruelty of Gix
Mana cost {3}{B}{B}
Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.) I — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card. II — Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. III — Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Part of 1 known combo. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · DMU · #87
- Cheapest printing
- €0.96
- EDHREC salt
- 0.47
- Color identity
- Black
- Keywords
- Read Ahead
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — counts toward 2 tutors (Lotus Vault house cap): Counts toward the 2 tutors allowed (Lotus Vault house cap)
- B2 Core — counts toward 2 tutors (Lotus Vault house cap): Counts toward the 2 tutors allowed (Lotus Vault house cap)
- B3 Upgraded — counts toward 4 tutors (Lotus Vault house cap): Counts toward the 4 tutors allowed (Lotus Vault house cap)
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Nonland tutor, two at most in brackets 1–2 and four in bracket 3 (Lotus Vault house cap)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
1 known combo.
- Narci, Fable Singer + The Cruelty of Gix + Huatli's Raptor + Hex Parasite + Phyrexian Altar
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2022-09-09 · Wizards of the Coast
You must search your library as the chapter II ability resolves, and you will lose 3 life. - 2022-09-09 · Wizards of the Coast
As a Saga with read ahead enters the battlefield, its controller chooses a number from one to that Saga’s greatest chapter number. The Saga enters the battlefield with the chosen number of lore counters. Neither choosing the number nor putting the counters on the Saga use the stack, and neither can be responded to.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast