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Cauldron Familiar

Creature — Cat MV 1

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What it does

When this creature enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Sacrifice a Food: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Combos with Cauldron Familiar

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Worldfire Hypersonic Dragon Infinite
    • Each opponent loses the game
    • Exile all cards in hands and graveyards
    • Exile all permanents
    • Near-infinite lifeloss
    • Mass Land Denial
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Worldfire Oblivion Ring Infinite
    • Each opponent loses the game
    • Exile all cards in hands and graveyards
    • Exile all permanents
    • Near-infinite lifeloss
    • Mass Land Denial
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Warren Soultrader Enduring Renewal Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite lifeloss
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Worldfire Emergence Zone Infinite
    • Each opponent loses the game
    • Exile all cards in hands and graveyards
    • Exile all permanents
    • Near-infinite lifeloss
    • Mass Land Denial
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Worldfire Vedalken Orrery Infinite
    • Each opponent loses the game
    • Exile all cards in hands and graveyards
    • Exile all permanents
    • Near-infinite lifeloss
    • Mass Land Denial
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Samwise Gamgee Viscera Seer Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite scry 1
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Worldfire Tidal Barracuda Infinite
    • Each opponent loses the game
    • Exile all cards in hands and graveyards
    • Exile all permanents
    • Near-infinite lifeloss
    • Mass Land Denial
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Worldfire Kaya the Inexorable Infinite
    • Each opponent loses the game
    • Exile all cards in hands and graveyards
    • Exile all permanents
    • Near-infinite lifeloss
    • Mass Land Denial
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

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Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2019-10-04

    In a Two-Headed Giant game, Cauldron Familiar's first ability causes the opposing team to lose 1 life twice, and you gain 1 life once.

  • 2019-10-04

    You can't activate Cauldron Familiar's last ability unless it's in your graveyard.

  • 2024-11-08

    If an effect refers to a Food, it means any Food artifact, not just a Food artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Tough Cookie (an Artifact Creature — Food Golem) to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability (an ability with "Sacrifice a Food" in its cost).

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Cauldron Familiar, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Aphelia, Viper Whisperer 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Golgari 1 deck

Every version of Cauldron Familiar

8 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

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Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.