Card
Crypt Champion
Mana cost {3}{B}
Double strike When this creature enters, each player puts a creature card with mana value 3 or less from their graveyard onto the battlefield. When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless {R} was spent to cast it.
Part of 7 known combos, 4 of them two-card. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · DIS · #40
- Cheapest printing
- €0.10
- EDHREC salt
- 0.41
- Color identity
- Black, Red
- Keywords
- Double strike
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Saffi Eriksdotter, Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore, Phantasmal Image, Mirror Image
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Saffi Eriksdotter, Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore, Phantasmal Image, Mirror Image
- 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 Saffi Eriksdotter, Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore, Phantasmal Image, Mirror Image (none of them early)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
7 known combos, 4 of them two-card.
- Crypt Champion + Fiend Hunter + Goblin Bombardment
Produces: Infinite damage, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Saffi Eriksdotter + Crypt Champion
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - Crypt Champion + Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2006-05-01 · Wizards of the Coast
The first triggered ability isn't targeted, so the creature cards aren't chosen until the ability resolves. Each player chooses which creature card from their own graveyard to return. If a player doesn't have an applicable creature card, that player does nothing. If a player does have any applicable cards, that player must return one to the battlefield. - 2006-05-01 · Wizards of the Coast
If this enters in a way other than announcing it as a spell, then the appropriate mana can't have been paid, and you'll have to sacrifice it.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast