Card
Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
Mana cost {3}{W}{B}
Legendary Creature — Vampire Soldier 2/2
Flying Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Carmen and you gain 1 life. Whenever Carmen attacks, return up to one target permanent card with mana value less than or equal to Carmen's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Part of 98 known combos, one of them two-card. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · LCC · #5
- Cheapest printing
- €1.67
- EDHREC salt
- 0.32
- Color identity
- Black, White
- Keywords
- Flying
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Breath of Fury
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Breath of Fury
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partner: Breath of Fury
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Breath of Fury (early with Breath of Fury)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
98 known combos, one of them two-card.
- Warren Soultrader + Pitiless Plunderer + Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher + Reassembling Skeleton
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher + Pawn of Ulamog
Produces: Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
If a permanent is sacrificed to pay a cost of a spell or ability, Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher's second ability will resolve before that spell or ability. Conversely, if a permanent is sacrificed during the resolution of a spell or ability, that spell or ability will finish resolving before Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher's second ability is put onto the stack. - 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
If another effect causes Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher's power to be less than the mana value of the target card as its last ability tries to resolve, the target is illegal. You won't return the target card to the battlefield. - 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
If you sacrifice Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher, its second ability will still trigger.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast