Card
Cruel Celebrant
Mana cost {W}{B}
Whenever this creature or another creature or planeswalker you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 101 known combos. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · WAR · #188
- Cheapest printing
- €0.92
- EDHREC salt
- 0.32
- Color identity
- Black, White
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
101 known combos.
- Warren Soultrader + Pitiless Plunderer + Cruel Celebrant + Reassembling Skeleton
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Cruel Celebrant + Pawn of Ulamog
Produces: Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + Cruel Celebrant
Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2019-05-03 · Wizards of the Coast
If Cruel Celebrant dies at the same time as one or more other creatures and/or planeswalkers you control, its ability triggers for each of them. - 2019-05-03 · Wizards of the Coast
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Cruel Celebrant's ability causes the opposing team to lose 2 life and you gain 1 life. - 2019-05-03 · Wizards of the Coast
If a planeswalker that's also a creature dies, Cruel Celebrant's ability triggers only once.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast