Card

Seifer Almasy

Mana cost {3}{R}

Legendary Creature — Human Knight 3/4

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains double strike until end of turn. Fire Cross — Whenever Seifer Almasy deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 4 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · FIN · #156
Cheapest printing
€0.20
EDHREC salt
0.18
Color identity
Red
Keywords
Fire Cross

Scryfall · EDHREC

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

No known combos for this card.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
    You cast the instant or sorcery while Seifer Almasy's last ability is resolving and still on the stack. You can't wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on the card's type are ignored.
  • 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
    If a card in your graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value and you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
    A creature attacks alone if it's the only creature declared as an attacker during the declare attackers step (including creatures controlled by your teammates, if applicable). For example, Seifer Almasy's first ability won't trigger if you attack with multiple creatures and all but one of them are removed from combat. Similarly, creatures that enter the battlefield attacking later in combat won't be considered when determining whether or not a creature attacked alone.
  • 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the spell.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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