Cut Your Losses
Sorcery$1.74
Casualty 2 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. When you do, copy this spell and you may choose a new target for the copy.) Target player mills half their library, rounded down.
Legal in Commander
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Combos 5
Cut Your Losses + Bruvac the Grandiloquent
- Infinite mill for up to two target players
- Near-infinite self-mill
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
Optionally, you control an additional creature with power 2 or greater.
Steps
Cast Cut Your Losses by paying its mana cost, causing an opponent to mill a number of cards equal to half their library, rounded down, times two due to Bruvac.
Cut Your Losses + Fraying Sanity
- Near-infinite mill for target opponent
- Infinite self-mill
- Infinite mill for target opponent
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
Fraying Sanity is attached to an opponent. Optionally, you control an additional creature with power 2 or greater.
Steps
Cast Cut Your Losses by paying {4}{U}{U}, causing an opponent to mill half their library, rounded down. At the beginning of your end step, Fraying Sanity triggers, causing the opponent to mill cards equal to the number of cards put into their graveyard this turn.
Cut Your Losses + Riverchurn Monument
- Infinite mill for up to two target players
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You have not activated Riverchurn Monument's exhaust ability.
Steps
Cast Cut Your Losses by paying {4}{U}{U}, causing a player to mill half their library, rounded up. Activate Riverchurn Monument's exhaust ability by paying {2}{U}{U} and tapping it, causing each player to mill cards equal to the number of cards in their graveyard, thus causing the player targeted by Cut Your Losses to mill the rest of their library.
Cut Your Losses + Keening Stone
- Infinite mill for target opponent
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Steps
Cast Cut Your Losses by paying {4}{U}{U}, causing an opponent to mill half their library, rounded down. Activate Keening Stone by paying {5} and tapping it, causing the opponent to mill cards equal to the number of cards in their graveyard, thus milling the rest of their library.
Cut Your Losses + Phenax, God of Deception + Sewer Nemesis
- Infinite self-mill
- Infinite mill for target opponent
- Near-infinite mill for target opponent
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
Optionally, you control an additional creature with power 2 or greater.
Steps
Cast Cut Your Losses by paying {4}{U}{U}, causing the player named by Sewer Nemesis to mill half their library, rounded down. Activate Sewer Nemesis by tapping it, causing the player to mill cards equal to the cards in their graveyard, milling the remainder of their library.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook. Only combos of 2 or 3 named cards are listed.
Best commanders
Commanders whose abilities work with this card and share its colors, from what the cards do.
- Edea, Possessed SorceressCut Your Losses sacrifices your creatures, which Edea, Possessed Sorceress can use because it rewards your creatures dying.
- Zellix, Sanity FlayerCut Your Losses mills opponents, which Zellix, Sanity Flayer can use.
- Riku of Two ReflectionsRiku of Two Reflections makes creature tokens and Cut Your Losses sacrifices your creatures.
- Bruvac the GrandiloquentCut Your Losses mills opponents, which Bruvac the Grandiloquent can use.
- The Wise MothmanCut Your Losses mills opponents, which The Wise Mothman can use.
- Brenard, Ginger SculptorCut Your Losses sacrifices your creatures, which Brenard, Ginger Sculptor can use because it rewards your creatures dying.
- Wilhelt, the RotcleaverWilhelt, the Rotcleaver makes creature tokens and Cut Your Losses sacrifices your creatures.
- Minn, Wily IllusionistMinn, Wily Illusionist makes creature tokens and Cut Your Losses sacrifices your creatures.
- The Watcher in the WaterThe Watcher in the Water makes creature tokens and Cut Your Losses sacrifices your creatures.
- Millicent, Restless RevenantMillicent, Restless Revenant makes creature tokens and Cut Your Losses sacrifices your creatures.