Card
Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos
Mana cost {3}{B}
Legendary Creature — Ogre Demon 4/4
{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Scry 2. {2}{R}, {T}: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. When you exile a nonland card this way, Hidetsugu deals damage equal to the exiled card's mana value to any target.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 10 known combos. 1 official ruling.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · NEO · #99
- Cheapest printing
- €0.16
- EDHREC salt
- 0.13
- Color identity
- Black, Red
- Keywords
- 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
10 known combos.
- Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos + Eligeth, Crossroads Augur + The Locust God + Phyrexian Altar
Produces: Infinite card draw, Near-infinite death triggers, Near-infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos + Intruder Alarm + Mortuary + Hangarback Walker
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos + Intruder Alarm + Mortuary + Endless One
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2022-02-18 · Wizards of the Coast
You must still pay all costs and follow all normal timing rules when playing a card this way. For example, you may play a land this way only during one of your own main phases while the stack is empty, and only if you haven't previously played a land this turn.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast