Card
Abandoned Sarcophagus
Mana cost {3}
You may cast spells that have a cycling ability from your graveyard. If a card that has a cycling ability would be put into your graveyard from anywhere and it wasn't cycled, exile it instead.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 55 known combos. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · HOU · #158
- Cheapest printing
- €0.16
- EDHREC salt
- 0.31
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
55 known combos.
- Abandoned Sarcophagus + Phyrexian Altar + Flourishing Fox + Humility
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - Abandoned Sarcophagus + Overwhelming Splendor + Hollow One + Ashnod's Altar
Produces: Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Abandoned Sarcophagus + Humility + Hollow One + Ashnod's Altar
Produces: Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2017-07-14 · Wizards of the Coast
If you cycle an instant card, you may cast it from your graveyard right away before any player may take any other action. If you do, that spell will resolve before the cycling ability. If you cycle a noninstant card without flash, you can't cast it until after the cycling ability has resolved. - 2017-07-14 · Wizards of the Coast
Abandoned Sarcophagus doesn't grant you permission to do anything with those cards except cast them. For example, you can't cycle nonland cards with cycling from your graveyard. - 2017-07-14 · Wizards of the Coast
A token permanent with cycling will go to your graveyard before ceasing to exist. It won't be exiled. Similarly, a nontoken permanent that lost cycling while it was on the battlefield will also go to your graveyard. - 2017-07-14 · Wizards of the Coast
Certain older cards have variants of cycling, such as basic landcycling or Wizardcycling. Abandoned Sarcophagus's effect lets you cast these cards and exiles them if they weren't discarded for their cycling variant's ability.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast