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Culling the Weak
Oracle Text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Culling the Weak is a one-mana instant that asks you to sacrifice a creature to produce four black mana, thematically capturing black’s ruthless conversion of life into power and effectively turning a disposable body into an immediate three‑mana acceleration. That makes it a natural fit for combo and midrange/reanimator strategies that want to cheat big black finishers or flash in a Griselbrand or Exsanguinate turn sooner; it also slots cleanly into aristocrats shells that already value sacrifice (Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat) because the body dying is extra upside. In practice, build around abundant sacrificial fodder — token generators, cheap chaff, or recurring bodies like Gravecrawler — and include at least one monster payoff to spend the burst mana. It’s a tempo tool too: surprise mana on an opponent’s end step can turn a slow draw into lethal, but don’t rely on it in creature‑light lists; add reliable sac outlets to maximize value.
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Character Background
Culling the Weak is a one-mana instant that asks you to sacrifice a creature to produce four black mana, thematically capturing black’s ruthless conversion of life into power and effectively turning a disposable body into an immediate three‑mana acceleration. That makes it a natural fit for combo and midrange/reanimator strategies that want to cheat big black finishers or flash in a Griselbrand or Exsanguinate turn sooner; it also slots cleanly into aristocrats shells that already value sacrifice (Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat) because the body dying is extra upside. In practice, build around abundant sacrificial fodder — token generators, cheap chaff, or recurring bodies like Gravecrawler — and include at least one monster payoff to spend the burst mana. It’s a tempo tool too: surprise mana on an opponent’s end step can turn a slow draw into lethal, but don’t rely on it in creature‑light lists; add reliable sac outlets to maximize value.
Generated using gpt-5-mini · Updated at 2026-05-16 15:20:44 UTC