Card
Tortured Existence
Mana cost {B}
{B}, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Part of 222 known combos, one of them two-card. 1 official ruling.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Common · STH · #74
- Cheapest printing
- €4.23
- EDHREC salt
- 0.45
- Color identity
- Black
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Kheru Goldkeeper
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Kheru Goldkeeper
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: Its two-card combos are not early, which Bracket 3 allows
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Kheru Goldkeeper (none of them early)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
222 known combos, one of them two-card.
- Kheru Goldkeeper + Tortured Existence
Produces: Infinite self-discard triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Hashaton, Scarab's Fist + Tortured Existence + Peregrine Drake
Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite self-discard triggers, Infinite tapped creature tokens
View on Commander Spellbook - Tortured Existence + Phyrexian Altar + Teval, the Balanced Scale
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2004-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
You can’t return the same card you are discarding. This is because you pick the target before paying the costs.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast