Card
Riverchurn Monument
Mana cost {1}{U}
{1}, {T}: Any number of target players each mill two cards. (Each of them puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.) Exhaust — {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Any number of target players each mill cards equal to the number of cards in their graveyard. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
Part of 9 known combos, 9 of them two-card. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · DFT · #57
- Cheapest printing
- €0.48
- EDHREC salt
- 0.46
- Color identity
- Blue
- Keywords
- Exhaust, Mill
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Maddening Cacophony, Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture, Singularity Rupture, Traumatize, Cut Your Losses, Terisian Mindbreaker, Fleet Swallower, Kitsune's Technique, Lord Xander, the Collector
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Maddening Cacophony, Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture, Singularity Rupture, Traumatize, Cut Your Losses, Terisian Mindbreaker, Fleet Swallower, Kitsune's Technique, Lord Xander, the Collector
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partners: Terisian Mindbreaker, Fleet Swallower, Lord Xander, the Collector
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Maddening Cacophony, Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture, Singularity Rupture, Traumatize, Cut Your Losses, Terisian Mindbreaker, Fleet Swallower, Kitsune's Technique, Lord Xander, the Collector (early with Terisian Mindbreaker, Fleet Swallower, Lord Xander, the Collector)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
9 known combos, 9 of them two-card.
- Riverchurn Monument + Maddening Cacophony
Produces: Infinite mill
View on Commander Spellbook - Riverchurn Monument + Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
Produces: Infinite mill for target opponent
View on Commander Spellbook - Riverchurn Monument + Singularity Rupture
Produces: Infinite mill
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
If an ability triggers whenever you activate an exhaust ability, that ability resolves before the exhaust ability resolves. - 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
If an exhaust ability of a permanent is activated, and then that permanent leaves the battlefield and returns to the battlefield, it becomes a new object so its exhaust ability can be activated again. - 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
Exhaust abilities can be activated any time you could normally activate an ability.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast