Card
Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
Mana cost {3}{B}
Legendary Creature — Rat Warlock 3/4
Whenever Ashcoat attacks or blocks, other Rats you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Rats you control. At the beginning of your end step, you may mill four cards. If you do, return up to two Rat creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 1 known combo. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · J22 · #19
- Cheapest printing
- €4.03
- EDHREC salt
- 0.44
- Color identity
- Black
- Keywords
- Mill
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
1 known combo.
- Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm + Mind Over Matter + The Peregrine Dynamo
Produces: Infinite self-discard triggers, Infinite self-mill
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2022-12-02 · Wizards of the Coast
The value of X is locked in as the first ability resolves. The bonus it grants won't change after that point, even if the number of Rats you control does. - 2022-12-02 · Wizards of the Coast
You choose which Rat creature cards to return to your hand as the last ability resolves. You may choose Rat creature cards milled with this ability.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast