Card
Bone Miser
Mana cost {4}{B}
Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever you discard a land card, add {B}{B}. Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 151 known combos. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · C19 · #15
- Cheapest printing
- €24.35
- EDHREC salt
- 0.53
- 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
151 known combos.
- Bone Miser + Tortured Existence + Phyrexian Altar
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - The Necrobloom + Bone Miser
Produces: Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite black mana, Near-infinite self-discard triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Bone Miser + Life from the Loam + Skirge Familiar
Produces: Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite black mana, Near-infinite self-discard triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
This creature’s second ability isn’t a mana ability. It uses the stack and can be responded to. Notably, this means that you can’t pay a cost of “{2}, Discard a card” by discarding a land card and using the {B}{B} produced to pay for the {2}. - 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
If you discard a card as a cost to cast a spell or activate an ability, this creature’s triggered ability resolves before that spell or ability but after you’ve chosen targets for it. If you discard a card while a spell or ability is resolving, the triggered ability resolves after you’ve finished resolving that spell or ability. - 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
This creature’s abilities are triggered abilities, not activated abilities. They don’t allow you to discard a card whenever you want; rather, you need some other way of discarding a card (such as cycling).
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast