Smothering Tithe
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay 2. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Combos with Smothering Tithe
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.
- Stasis Infinite
- Mass Land Denial
- Players skip their untap steps
- Lock
- Faerie Mastermind Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy Infinite
- Infinite card draw for all players
- Infinite draw triggers for all players
- Near-infinite Treasure tokens
- Near-infinite colored mana
- Near-infinite colorless mana
- Super-Skrull Anointed Procession Infinite
- Near-infinite artifact ETB
- Near-infinite artifact LTB
- Near-infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite card draw for any number of opponents
- Infinite draw triggers for any number of opponents
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite Treasure tokens
- Near-infinite card draw
- Near-infinite colored mana
- Near-infinite creature tokens
- Near-infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinitely large creature until end of turn
- Gleaming Splendor Anointed Procession Infinite
- Infinite card draw for any number of players
- Infinite draw triggers for any number of players
- Near-infinite Treasure tokens
- Near-infinite colored mana
- Near-infinite artifact ETB
- Near-infinite artifact LTB
- Near-infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Underworld Breach Whispering Madness Infinite
- Infinite draw triggers for all players
- Infinite looting for all players
- Infinite self-discard triggers for all players
- Near-infinite colored mana
- Near-infinite Treasure tokens
- Underworld Breach Wheel of Fortune Infinite
- Infinite draw triggers for all players
- Infinite looting for all players
- Infinite self-discard triggers for all players
- Near-infinite colored mana
- Near-infinite Treasure tokens
- Underworld Breach Reforge the Soul Infinite
- Infinite draw triggers for all players
- Infinite looting for all players
- Infinite self-discard triggers for all players
- Near-infinite colored mana
- Near-infinite Treasure tokens
- Otherworld Atlas Clock of Omens Infinite
- Infinite card draw for all players
- Infinite draw triggers for all players
- Near-infinite tapped Treasure tokens
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
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2023-09-01
If an opponent is instructed to draw multiple cards, that player draws all of them before deciding how many times to pay as the multiple triggered abilities from Smothering Tithe resolve.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Smothering Tithe, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Y'shtola, Night's Blessed | 2 | 0 | — |
| Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad | 1 | 0 | — |
| Athreos, God of Passage | 1 | 0 | — |
| Captain America, First Avenger | 1 | 0 | — |
| Clavileño, First of the Blessed | 1 | 0 | — |
| Dargo, the Shipwrecker | 1 | 0 | — |
| Giada, Font of Hope | 1 | 0 | — |
| Grand Arbiter Augustin IV | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Esper 3 decks
- Mono-White 2 decks
- Orzhov 2 decks
- Mardu 2 decks
- Azorius 2 decks
- Naya 1 deck
- Five-Color 1 deck
- Jeskai 1 deck
Every version of Smothering Tithe
13 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.
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Foil
- $746.55
Showcase
Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales
- Normal
- $61.39
- Foil
- $74.68
Inverted
Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales
- Normal
- $199.83
- Foil
- $416.34
Inverted
Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales
- Foil
- $1,594.50
Etched
- Etched
- $71.71
- Normal
- $61.30
- Foil
- $62.67
Inverted
- Normal
- $72.27
- Foil
- $81.99
Promo
Judge Gift Cards 2022
- Foil
- $114.15
- Normal
- $57.18
- Foil
- $58.21
Inverted
- Normal
- $71.85
- Foil
- $83.25
Etched
- Etched
- $73.13
- Normal
- $54.81
- Foil
- $59.62
Promo
Ravnica Allegiance Promos
- Normal
- $56.58
- Foil
- $58.66
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Smothering Tithe — 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.