Card

Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats

Mana cost {4}{B}{R}

Legendary Creature — Vampire Rogue 4/4

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature in your party. Flying, deathtouch, haste Other creatures you control have deathtouch. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a planeswalker, destroy that planeswalker.

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 11 known combos. 5 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · ZNR · #241
Cheapest printing
€0.19
EDHREC salt
0.39
Color identity
Black, Red
Keywords
Deathtouch, Flying, Haste

Scryfall · EDHREC

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

11 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2020-09-25 · Wizards of the Coast
    If a spell has a cost reduction based on the number of creatures in your party, no player may attempt to change that number after you begin to cast the spell but before you pay the cost.
  • 2020-09-25 · Wizards of the Coast
    If a creature has more than one party creature type, and there are multiple ways to count that creature that could result in a different number of creatures in your party, the highest such number is used. For example, if you control a Cleric and a Cleric Wizard, the number of creatures in your party is two. You can't choose to have it be just one by counting the Cleric Wizard first as a Cleric.
  • 2020-09-25 · Wizards of the Coast
    An ability referring to the number of creatures in your party gets a number from zero to four. Such abilities never ask which creatures are in your party, and you never have to designate specific creatures as being in your party. You can't choose to exclude creatures from this count to lower the number.
  • 2020-09-25 · Wizards of the Coast
    Several cards have a cost reduction based on the number of creatures in your party. To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
  • 2020-09-25 · Wizards of the Coast
    To determine "the number of creatures in your party," check whether you control a Cleric, whether you control a Rogue, whether you control a Warrior, and whether you control a Wizard. The number is the total number of those checks to which you answered yes. Each creature you control can be counted for only one of those checks.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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