Card
Cauldron Familiar
Mana cost {B}
Creature — Cat 1/1
When this creature enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. Sacrifice a Food: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 710 known combos. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · ELD · #81
- Cheapest printing
- €1.52
- EDHREC salt
- 0.47
- Color identity
- Black
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
710 known combos.
- Warren Soultrader + Cauldron Familiar + Academy Manufactor
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Warren Soultrader + Cauldron Familiar + Peregrin Took
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Academy Manufactor + Pitiless Plunderer + Cauldron Familiar + Ashnod's Altar
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
If an effect refers to a Food, it means any Food artifact, not just a Food artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Tough Cookie (an Artifact Creature — Food Golem) to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability (an ability with "Sacrifice a Food" in its cost). - 2019-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Cauldron Familiar's first ability causes the opposing team to lose 1 life twice, and you gain 1 life once. - 2019-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
You can't activate Cauldron Familiar's last ability unless it's in your graveyard.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast