Card
Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
Mana cost {2}{B}
Legendary Creature — Demon Rogue 2/3
Deathtouch Boast — {1}{B}: Target player searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)
Part of 9 known combos, 2 of them two-card. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · KHM · #115
- Cheapest printing
- €3.03
- EDHREC salt
- 0.42
- Color identity
- Black
- Keywords
- Boast, Deathtouch
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Nexus of Fate, Beacon of Tomorrows
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Nexus of Fate, Beacon of Tomorrows
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partners: Nexus of Fate, Beacon of Tomorrows
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Nonland tutor, two at most in brackets 1–2 and four in bracket 3 (Lotus Vault house cap)
- Two-card combo with Nexus of Fate, Beacon of Tomorrows (early with Nexus of Fate, Beacon of Tomorrows)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
9 known combos, 2 of them two-card.
- Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire + Nexus of Fate
Produces: Infinite turns, Skip your draw steps, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook - Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire + Beacon of Tomorrows
Produces: Infinite turns, Skip your draw steps, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook - Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire + Kuro, Pitlord + Temporal Extortion + Repay in Kind + Canal Dredger
Produces: On each of your turns, you take an extra turn unless an opponent chooses to lose the game, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast
If it's not your turn and you gain control of a creature with a boast ability after that creature attacked, you can activate that creature's boast ability if it hasn't been activated yet that turn. - 2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast
If an effect adds additional combat phases to a turn and a creature with a boast ability attacks more than once during that turn, its boast ability can still be activated only once. - 2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast
A boast ability can be activated at any point after the creature with that ability has been declared as an attacker. This can be before blockers are declared, after blockers are declared but before combat damage is dealt, during combat after combat damage is dealt, during the postcombat main phase, during the end step, or, in some unusual cases, during the cleanup step. - 2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast
If a creature with a boast ability is put onto the battlefield attacking, it was never declared as an attacker. Its boast ability can't be activated that turn.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast