Card
Exsanguinate
Mana cost {X}{B}{B}
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Part of 29 known combos, 2 of them two-card. 1 official ruling.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · SOM · #61
- Cheapest printing
- €0.36
- EDHREC salt
- 0.76
- Color identity
- Black
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Yavimaya Bloomsage // Channel, Channel
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Yavimaya Bloomsage // Channel, Channel
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partner: Yavimaya Bloomsage // Channel
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Yavimaya Bloomsage // Channel, Channel (early with Yavimaya Bloomsage // Channel)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
29 known combos, 2 of them two-card.
- Rowan, Scion of War + Exsanguinate + Wall of Blood
Produces: Near-infinite lifegain, Near-infinite lifeloss
View on Commander Spellbook - Rowan, Scion of War + Exsanguinate + Treasonous Ogre
Produces: Near-infinite lifegain, Near-infinite lifeloss, Near-infinite red mana
View on Commander Spellbook - Skirge Familiar + Peer into the Abyss + Exsanguinate
Produces: Near-infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite lifegain, Near-infinite lifeloss
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2011-01-01 · Wizards of the Coast
Players can lose more life than they have. For example, say you're playing a multiplayer game in which one of your opponents has 3 life and your other opponent has 10 life. If you cast Exsanguinate with X of 4, your opponents will wind up at -1 life and 6 life, respectively. You'll gain 8 life.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast