Card

Thought Lash

Mana cost {2}{U}{U}

Enchantment

Cumulative upkeep—Exile the top card of your library. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When a player doesn't pay this enchantment's cumulative upkeep, that player exiles all cards from their library. Exile the top card of your library: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Part of 7 known combos, 5 of them two-card. 2 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · ALL · #39
Cheapest printing
€11.93
EDHREC salt
0.62
Color identity
Blue
Keywords
Cumulative upkeep

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

Why

  • Two-card combo with Thassa's Oracle, Laboratory Maniac, Jace, Wielder of Mysteries, Nexus of Fate, Fblthp, Impossibly Lost (early with Thassa's Oracle, Laboratory Maniac, Jace, Wielder of Mysteries, Nexus of Fate, Fblthp, Impossibly Lost)

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

7 known combos, 5 of them two-card.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2008-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast
    If your library has no cards in it, you can’t activate the last ability.
  • 2004-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you don’t pay Thought Lash’s cumulative upkeep, you’ll sacrifice Thought Lash as normal, then, when its triggered ability resolves, you’ll exile all cards in your library.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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