Card
Grinning Totem
Mana cost {4}
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play that card. At the beginning of your next upkeep, if you haven't played it, put it into its owner's graveyard.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 2 known combos. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Special · TSB · #110
- Cheapest printing
- €0.28
- EDHREC salt
- 0.36
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
2 known combos.
- Dauthi Voidwalker + Tethmos High Priest + Lightning Greaves + Grinning Totem + Forge Anew
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - Dauthi Voidwalker + Tethmos High Priest + Lightning Greaves + Grinning Totem + Leonin Shikari
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2006-09-25 · Wizards of the Coast
You may choose to find any kind of card, including a land. You must exile a card (unless the opponent’s library is empty); you can’t fail to find anything. - 2006-09-25 · Wizards of the Coast
The exiled card is played using the normal rules for timing and priority for its card type, as well as any other applicable restrictions. You’ll have to pay its mana cost. The only thing that’s different is you’re casting it from the Exile zone. - 2006-09-25 · Wizards of the Coast
“Until the beginning of your next upkeep” means the effect wears off as soon as your next upkeep starts. Your last chance to play the card is usually the End step of the player who immediately precedes you.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast