Card
Glistening Oil
Mana cost {B}{B}
Enchant creature Enchanted creature has infect. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.
Part of 32 known combos, 5 of them two-card. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · NPH · #62
- Cheapest printing
- €7.66
- EDHREC salt
- 0.56
- Color identity
- Black
- Keywords
- Enchant
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Super State, Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar, Heartless Hidetsugu, Lord of Tresserhorn, Hydra Omnivore
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Super State, Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar, Heartless Hidetsugu, Lord of Tresserhorn, Hydra Omnivore
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partners: Super State, Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar, Heartless Hidetsugu, Lord of Tresserhorn, Hydra Omnivore
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Super State, Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar, Heartless Hidetsugu, Lord of Tresserhorn, Hydra Omnivore (early with Super State, Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar, Heartless Hidetsugu, Lord of Tresserhorn, Hydra Omnivore)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
32 known combos, 5 of them two-card.
- Windfall + Glistening Oil + Nekusar, the Mindrazer
Produces: Each opponent loses the game
View on Commander Spellbook - Windfall + Glistening Oil + Fate Unraveler
Produces: Each opponent loses the game
View on Commander Spellbook - Windfall + Glistening Oil + Orcish Bowmasters
Produces: Each opponent loses the game
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2011-06-01 · Wizards of the Coast
Multiple instances of infect are redundant. - 2011-06-01 · Wizards of the Coast
The last ability will trigger no matter how Glistening Oil is put into the graveyard from the battlefield, not just when the enchanted creature is put into the graveyard. - 2011-06-01 · Wizards of the Coast
You choose a target creature for Glistening Oil as you cast it, just as you would with any Aura. If that creature is an illegal target when Glistening Oil tries to resolve, Glistening Oil won't resolve and will be put into its owner's graveyard. It won't enter and its last ability won't trigger.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast