Card
Carth the Lion
Mana cost {2}{B}{G}
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior 3/5
Whenever Carth enters or a planeswalker you control dies, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal a planeswalker card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Planeswalkers' loyalty abilities you activate cost an additional [+1] to activate.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 33 known combos. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · MH2 · #189
- Cheapest printing
- €0.22
- EDHREC salt
- 0.69
- Color identity
- Black, Green
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
33 known combos.
- Teferi, Temporal Archmage + The Chain Veil + Carth the Lion
Produces: Infinite card draw, Infinite colored mana, Infinite colorless mana
View on Commander Spellbook - Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion + Jace, Cunning Castaway + Carth the Lion
Produces: Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite copies of a specific planeswalker
View on Commander Spellbook - Carth the Lion + Wrenn and Realmbreaker + Lotus Petal + The Chain Veil
Produces: Cast all permanent cards in your graveyard, Infinite colored mana, Infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2021-06-18 · Wizards of the Coast
The total cost of a planeswalker's loyalty ability is calculated before any counters are added or removed. If a loyalty ability normally costs [-3] to activate, you do not remove three counters from it and then put one counter on it. You remove two counters at one time when you pay the cost. - 2021-06-18 · Wizards of the Coast
If you somehow manage to control two Carths (perhaps because of Spark Double), the cost-changing effect is cumulative. In total, loyalty abilities will cost an additional [+2] to activate. - 2021-06-18 · Wizards of the Coast
If an effect replaces the number of counters that would be placed on a planeswalker, such as that of Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider, that replacement happens only once, at the time payment is made. - 2021-06-18 · Wizards of the Coast
If a planeswalker's loyalty ability normally has a cost of [+1], Carth's ability makes it cost [+2] instead. A cost of [0] would become [+1], and a cost of [-6] would become [-5].
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast