Card
Dictate of Erebos
Mana cost {3}{B}{B}
Flash Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 25 known combos. 5 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · JOU · #65
- Cheapest printing
- €13.53
- EDHREC salt
- 1.88
- Color identity
- Black
- Keywords
- Flash
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
25 known combos.
- Overseer of the Damned + Dictate of Erebos + Ashnod's Altar
Produces: Each opponent sacrifices any creature that enters under their control, Each opponent sacrifices all creatures they control, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook - Overseer of the Damned + Dictate of Erebos + Phyrexian Altar
Produces: Each opponent sacrifices any creature that enters under their control, Each opponent sacrifices all creatures they control, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook - Overseer of the Damned + Dictate of Erebos + Viscera Seer
Produces: Each opponent sacrifices any creature that enters under their control, Each opponent sacrifices all creatures they control, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2014-04-26 · Wizards of the Coast
If you and an opponent each control a Dictate of Erebos and a creature dies, a chain reaction happens. First the ability of one player's Dictate of Erebos will trigger, causing each opponent to sacrifice a creature. That sacrifice causes the ability of the other player's Dictate of Erebos to trigger, and so on. - 2014-04-26 · Wizards of the Coast
If you control more than one Dictate of Erebos and a creature you control dies, each of the triggered abilities will trigger. Each opponent will sacrifice a creature each time one of those abilities resolves. - 2014-04-26 · Wizards of the Coast
When the triggered ability resolves, first the player whose turn it is (if that player is an opponent) chooses which creature they will sacrifice, then each other opponent in turn order does the same, then all chosen creatures are sacrificed at the same time. - 2014-04-26 · Wizards of the Coast
If multiple creatures you control die at the same time, Dictate of Erebos's triggered ability will trigger that many times. - 2014-04-26 · Wizards of the Coast
None of the opponents are targeted. An opponent with hexproof would still sacrifice a creature.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast