Card
Black Cat, Cunning Thief
Mana cost {3}{B}{B}
Legendary Creature — Human Rogue Villain 2/3
When Black Cat enters, look at the top nine cards of target opponent's library, exile two of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order. You may play the exiled cards for as long as they remain exiled. Mana of any type can be spent to cast spells this way.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · SPM · #52
- Cheapest printing
- €0.34
- EDHREC salt
- 0.64
- 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
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
You must follow all normal timing rules when playing a land or casting a spell this way. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
If there are fewer than nine cards left in the opponent's library as the ability resolves, you look at all of the remaining cards.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast