Card
Ashnod the Uncaring
Mana cost {2}{U}{B}{R}
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer 1/4
Deathtouch Whenever you activate an ability of an artifact or creature that isn't a mana ability, if one or more permanents were sacrificed to activate it, you may copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. (Sacrificing an artifact for mana to activate an ability doesn't count.)
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 55 known combos. 1 official ruling.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · BRC · #4
- Cheapest printing
- €0.37
- EDHREC salt
- 0.47
- Color identity
- Black, Red, Blue
- Keywords
- Deathtouch
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.
- Ashnod the Uncaring + Whisper, Blood Liturgist + Lightning Greaves
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - Ashnod the Uncaring + Apprentice Necromancer + Ruthless Knave
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - Ashnod the Uncaring + Goblin Engineer + Corridor Monitor + Commander's Sphere
Produces: Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
“Sacrificed to activate it” means that a permanent was sacrificed to pay the ability’s costs. Sacrificing an artifact, such as a Treasure token, to create mana that you used to pay an activation cost doesn’t count.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast