Card
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Mana cost {3}{B}{B}
When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Part of 104 known combos, 2 of them two-card. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Common · THS · #89
- Cheapest printing
- €1.06
- EDHREC salt
- 0.98
- Color identity
- Black
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Rite of Replication, Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Rite of Replication, Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: Its two-card combos are not early, which Bracket 3 allows
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Rite of Replication, Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink (none of them early)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
104 known combos, 2 of them two-card.
- Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Produces: Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Chainer, Dementia Master + K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth + Gray Merchant of Asphodel + Dimir House Guard
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook - Chainer, Dementia Master + K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth + Gray Merchant of Asphodel + Viscera Seer
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2021-03-19 · Wizards of the Coast
The amount of life you gain is the total amount of life lost, not simply the value of X. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
If you put an Aura on an opponent's permanent, you still control the Aura, and mana symbols in its mana cost count towards your devotion. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
Colorless and generic mana symbols ({C}, {0}, {1}, {2}, {X}, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it's still on the battlefield at that time. - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s). - 2020-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast