Card
Sabin, Master Monk
Mana cost {4}{R}
Legendary Creature — Human Noble Monk 4/3
Double strike Blitz—{2}{R}{R}, Discard a card. (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.) You may cast this card from your graveyard using its blitz ability.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 6 known combos. 5 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · FIC · #57
- Cheapest printing
- €0.19
- EDHREC salt
- 0.13
- Color identity
- Red
- Keywords
- Blitz, Double strike
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
6 known combos.
- Sabin, Master Monk + Skyfire Phoenix + Phyrexian Altar + Urza's Incubator
Produces: Infinite self-discard triggers, Near-infinite creature ETB, Infinite draw triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Sabin, Master Monk + Skyfire Phoenix + Phyrexian Altar + Semblance Anvil
Produces: Infinite self-discard triggers, Near-infinite creature ETB, Infinite draw triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Sabin, Master Monk + Skyfire Phoenix + Thermopod + Urza's Incubator
Produces: Infinite self-discard triggers, Near-infinite creature ETB, Infinite draw triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
If you pay the blitz cost to cast a creature spell, that permanent will be sacrificed only if it's still on the battlefield when that triggered ability resolves. If it dies or goes to another zone before then, it will stay where it is. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
If you choose to pay the blitz cost rather than the mana cost, you're still casting the spell. It goes on the stack and can be responded to and countered. You can cast a creature spell for its blitz cost only if you could cast that creature spell. Most of the time, this means during your main phase when the stack is empty. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
You don't have to attack with the creature with blitz unless another ability says you do. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
If a creature enters the battlefield as a copy of or becomes a copy of a creature whose blitz cost was paid, the copy won't have haste, won't be sacrificed, and its controller won't draw a card when it dies. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
The triggered ability that lets its controller draw a card triggers when it dies for any reason, not just when you sacrifice it during the end step.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast