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Mahadi, Emporium Master

Legendary Creature — Devil1 generic manaBlack manaRed mana

Aristocrats decks have always had a payoff problem: the sacrifice loop generates death triggers cheaply, but converting that volume of dying creatures into lasting resources usually meant running a Blood Artist for the drain or a Zulaport Cutthroat for the reach, both of which cap out at incremental life swings. This card turns every death into ramp instead. The clause counts each creature that died this turn (yours or anyone else's) and cashes out once, as your turn winds down, which rewards you for concentrating deaths into a window you control: a mass sacrifice or a board wipe resolved on your own turn pays out a fistful of any-color Treasure the moment that end step arrives. The deferred, once-per-turn timing is the whole design; it pushes you to detonate the loop in bulk rather than dribble creatures out one at a time. Those Treasures then do triple duty, feeding back into the same sacrifice fodder that produced them, fixing mana for a two-color commander whose deck is happy to run mana-hungry double-pips, and reading as artifacts for anything that counts them. A 3/3 for three in Rakdos is unremarkable on its own; the body is just the delivery vehicle for a ramp engine that scales with the exact thing an aristocrats deck already wants to do, and grows fatter the more the whole table is trading creatures away.

Mahadi, Emporium Master (clb)
CLB · #282uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $1.64
Foil: $3.14
Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your end step, create a Treasure token for each creature that died this turn. (It's an artifact with "Tap, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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