Card
Decaying Soil
Mana cost {1}{B}{B}
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile a card from your graveyard. Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this enchantment has "Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {1}. If you do, return that card to your hand."
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 90 known combos. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · ODY · #127
- Cheapest printing
- €0.46
- EDHREC salt
- 0.64
- Color identity
- Black
- Keywords
- Threshold
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
90 known combos.
- Decaying Soil + Phyrexian Altar + Ornithopter
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Decaying Soil + Phyrexian Altar + Memnite
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Decaying Soil + Phyrexian Altar + Phyrexian Walker
Produces: Infinite creature sacrifice triggers, Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2004-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
The ability in Threshold will trigger only if Threshold was met before the creature goes to the graveyard. So the one that causes Threshold to be met will not trigger the ability. - 2004-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
Multiple creatures going to the graveyard at the same time all end up there at once, so either all of them or none of them will cause the trigger to go off, depending on whether or not Threshold was met prior to the creatures going to the graveyard.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast