Card
Torgaar, Famine Incarnate
Mana cost {6}{B}{B}
Legendary Creature — Avatar 7/6
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each creature sacrificed this way. When Torgaar enters, up to one target player's life total becomes half their starting life total, rounded down.
Part of 4 known combos, 4 of them two-card. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · DOM · #108
- Cheapest printing
- €0.20
- EDHREC salt
- 0.37
- Color identity
- Black
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Bloodletter of Aclazotz, Wound Reflection, Archfiend of Despair, Warlock Class
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Bloodletter of Aclazotz, Wound Reflection, Archfiend of Despair, Warlock Class
- 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 Bloodletter of Aclazotz, Wound Reflection, Archfiend of Despair, Warlock Class (none of them early)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
4 known combos, 4 of them two-card.
- Torgaar, Famine Incarnate + Bloodletter of Aclazotz
Produces: Infinite lifeloss for target opponent, Target opponent loses the game
View on Commander Spellbook - Torgaar, Famine Incarnate + Wound Reflection
Produces: Infinite lifeloss for target opponent, Target opponent loses the game
View on Commander Spellbook - Torgaar, Famine Incarnate + Archfiend of Despair
Produces: Infinite lifeloss for target opponent, Target opponent loses the game
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2018-04-27 · Wizards of the Coast
Torgaar's first ability can't reduce its cost below {B}{B}. You can sacrifice any number of creatures, even if they won't reduce Torgaar's cost any further. - 2018-04-27 · Wizards of the Coast
For your life total to become half your starting life total (normally 10, half of 20), you gain or lose the appropriate amount of life. For example, if your life total is 4 when Torgaar's ability resolves targeting you, it will cause you to gain 6 life; alternatively, if your life total is 25 when it resolves, it will cause you to lose 15 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly. - 2018-04-27 · Wizards of the Coast
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Torgaar's ability causes the team's life total to become half the team's starting life total (normally 15, half of 30), but only the target player actually gains or loses life.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast