Card
Bontu the Glorified
Mana cost {2}{B}
Menace, indestructible Bontu can't attack or block unless a creature died under your control this turn. {1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1. Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · AKH · #82
- Cheapest printing
- €1.82
- EDHREC salt
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- Color identity
- Black
- Keywords
- Indestructible, Menace, Scry
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
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2017-04-18 · Wizards of the Coast
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Bontu's activated ability causes the opposing team to lose 2 life and you gain 1 life. - 2017-04-18 · Wizards of the Coast
All attackers are chosen at once. You can't attack with one, sacrifice it to satisfy Bontu's combat restriction, and then attack with Bontu. - 2017-04-18 · Wizards of the Coast
Creature tokens that die are put into your graveyard as normal (and cease to exist soon after). If one died this turn, it satisfies Bontu's combat restriction. - 2017-04-18 · Wizards of the Coast
The creature that died doesn't have to still be in its owner's graveyard to satisfy Bontu's combat restriction.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast