Card

Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

Mana cost {3}{B}{B}

Legendary Creature — Elder Demon 6/6

Flying Sacrifice another creature: Create a Blood token. If you sacrificed an Angel this way, create a number of Blood tokens equal to its toughness instead. {W/B}{W/B}{W/B}, Sacrifice six Blood tokens: Return each creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Those creatures are Vampires in addition to their other types.

Part of 1,718 known combos, 8 of them two-card. 8 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · MH3 · #109
Cheapest printing
€0.24
EDHREC salt
0.95
Color identity
Black, White
Keywords
Flying

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

Why

  • Two-card combo with Stridehangar Automaton, Chatterfang, Squirrel General, Quina, Qu Gourmet, Draconic Visitor, Jinnie Fay, Jetmir's Second, Displaced Dinosaurs, March of the Machines, Titania's Song (none of them early)

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

1,718 known combos, 8 of them two-card.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2025-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
    You can't sacrifice a Blood token to pay multiple costs.
  • 2025-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
    If an effect refers to a Blood token, it means any artifact token with the subtype Blood, even if it has gained other subtypes.
  • 2025-01-24 · Wizards of the Coast
    Some triggered abilities trigger "whenever you sacrifice a Blood token." These abilities trigger regardless of why you sacrificed that Blood token.
  • 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    Finality counters work on any permanent, not only creatures. If a permanent with a finality counter on it would go to a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead.
  • 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you sacrificed an Angel to pay the cost of Shilgengar's second ability, use the toughness of that Angel as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how many Blood tokens to create.
  • 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    Finality counters aren't keyword counters, and a finality counter doesn't give any abilities to the permanent it's on. If that permanent loses its abilities and then would go to a graveyard, it will still be exiled instead.
  • 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.
  • 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    Finality counters don't stop permanents from going to zones other than the graveyard from the battlefield. For example, if a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into its owner's hand from the battlefield, it does so normally.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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