Card
Grave Pact
Mana cost {1}{B}{B}{B}
Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 17 known combos. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · STH · #60
- Cheapest printing
- €18.50
- EDHREC salt
- 1.82
- Color identity
- Black
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
17 known combos.
- Glissa, the Traitor + Grave Pact + Ashnod's Altar + Ornithopter
Produces: Near-infinite colorless mana, Near-infinite death triggers, Near-infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Glissa, the Traitor + Grave Pact + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Ornithopter
Produces: Near-infinite colorless mana, Near-infinite death triggers, Near-infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Glissa, the Traitor + Grave Pact + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Memnite
Produces: Near-infinite colorless mana, Near-infinite death triggers, Near-infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2023-09-01 · Wizards of the Coast
In a Two-Headed Giant game, when a creature you control dies, Grave Pact's triggered ability will cause each other player, including your teammate, to sacrifice a creature. Grave Pact's ability won't trigger when a creature your teammate controls dies. - 2023-09-01 · Wizards of the Coast
None of the players are targeted. A player with hexproof would still sacrifice a creature. - 2023-09-01 · Wizards of the Coast
If two players each control a Grave Pact and a creature controlled by one of those players dies, a chain reaction happens. First the ability of that player's Grave Pact will trigger, causing each other player to sacrifice a creature. That sacrifice causes the ability of the other player's Grave Pact to trigger, and so on. - 2023-09-01 · Wizards of the Coast
If you control more than one Grave Pact and a creature you control dies, each of the triggered abilities will trigger. Each other player will sacrifice a creature each time one of those abilities resolves. - 2023-09-01 · Wizards of the Coast
When the triggered ability resolves, first the player whose turn it is (if it isn't your turn) chooses which creature they will sacrifice, then each other player in turn order does the same, then all chosen creatures are sacrificed at the same time. - 2023-09-01 · Wizards of the Coast
If multiple creatures you control die at the same time, Grave Pact's ability will trigger that many times.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast