Card
Cut Your Losses
Mana cost {4}{U}{U}
Casualty 2 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. When you do, copy this spell and you may choose a new target for the copy.) Target player mills half their library, rounded down.
Part of 4 known combos, 3 of them two-card. 5 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · SNC · #38
- Cheapest printing
- €0.55
- EDHREC salt
- 0.74
- Color identity
- Blue
- Keywords
- Casualty, Mill
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Bruvac the Grandiloquent, Riverchurn Monument, Keening Stone
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Bruvac the Grandiloquent, Riverchurn Monument, Keening Stone
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partner: Bruvac the Grandiloquent
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Bruvac the Grandiloquent, Riverchurn Monument, Keening Stone (early with Bruvac the Grandiloquent)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
4 known combos, 3 of them two-card.
- Bruvac the Grandiloquent + Cut Your Losses
Produces: Infinite mill for up to two target players, Near-infinite self-mill
View on Commander Spellbook - Riverchurn Monument + Cut Your Losses
Produces: Infinite mill for up to two target players
View on Commander Spellbook - Cut Your Losses + Keening Stone
Produces: Infinite mill for target opponent
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
If you pay the casualty cost of a spell, the copy will resolve before the original spell. - 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
You may sacrifice only one creature to pay a spell's casualty cost, and you copy the spell only once. - 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
The copy of the spell is created on the stack, so it's not “cast.” Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger. - 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
Casualty N means “As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power N or greater.” and “When you cast this spell, if a casualty cost was paid for it, copy it. If the spell has any targets, you may choose new targets for the copy.” - 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
If you cast Cut Your Losses and copy it targeting the same player, that player will mill half their library, then mill half of what remains after that. They do not mill their entire library.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast