The Cruelty of Gix
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}{B}
- Type
- Enchantment — Saga
- Set
- Dominaria United #87 (rare)
- Price
- $1.32 USD
Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.
II — Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.
III — Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
The Cruelty of Gix has 3 printings, first in Dominaria United (2022). EDHREC ranks it #4,249 among Commander cards. It appears most in Tom Bombadil decks (12,292 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run The Cruelty of Gix most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Tom Bombadil: 12,292 decks
- Narci, Fable Singer: 4,807 decks
- Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra: 2,236 decks
- Ghen, Arcanum Weaver: 557 decks
- Glissa Sunslayer: 526 decks
- Xavier Sal, Infested Captain: 433 decks
- Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor: 333 decks
- Mishra, Claimed by Gix: 223 decks
Often played with The Cruelty of Gix
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You must search your library as the chapter II ability resolves, and you will lose 3 life.
- : As a Saga with read ahead enters the battlefield, its controller chooses a number from one to that Saga’s greatest chapter number. The Saga enters the battlefield with the chosen number of lore counters. Neither choosing the number nor putting the counters on the Saga use the stack, and neither can be responded to.