Culling the Weak
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
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Combos with Culling the Weak
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Scholar of the Ages Corpse Dance Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand
- Underworld Breach Stitcher's Supplier Infinite
- Infinite self-mill
- Saw in Half Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Patron of the Moon Uyo, Silent Prophet Infinite
- Infinite black mana
- Infinite copies of instant and sorcery spells on the stack
- Infinite landfall triggers
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Scholar of the Ages Persist Infinite
- Infinite black mana
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand
- Scholar of the Ages Victimize Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand
- Inalla, Archmage Ritualist Persist Archaeomancer Infinite
- Infinite creature tokens with haste
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Ashling, the Limitless Greenwarden of Murasa Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2013-04-15
Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell.
- 2013-04-15
You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you cannot cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you cannot sacrifice additional creatures.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Culling the Weak, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord | 1 | 3 | — |
| Syr Konrad, the Grim | 1 | 2 | — |
| Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight | 1 | 1 | — |
| Athreos, God of Passage | 1 | 0 | — |
| Dargo, the Shipwrecker | 1 | 0 | — |
| Silverquill, the Disputant | 1 | 0 | — |
| Tymna the Weaver | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Orzhov 3 decks
- Mono-Black 1 deck
- Golgari 1 deck
- Mardu 1 deck
Every version of Culling the Weak
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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.
Showcase
Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive
- Foil
- $52.36
Showcase
Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive
- Normal
- $11.27
- Foil
- $13.55
Showcase
Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive
- Normal
- $8.25
Borderless
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $21.87
- Foil
- —
Borderless
Secret Lair Drop
- Foil
- $164.00
Mystery Booster 2
- Normal
- $7.26
Promo
Media and Collaboration Promos
- Foil
- $20.61
Exodus
- Normal
- $7.03
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Culling the Weak — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
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.