Cut a Deal
Sorcery
Each opponent draws a card, then you draw a card for each opponent who drew a card this way.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander
- Price
- $0.42
- EDHREC rank
- #1049
Cut a Deal draws cards equal to the number of opponents who were dealt combat damage this turn — in a four-player pod where your creatures connected, that's three cards for three mana at sorcery speed. Gluntch, the Bestower builds the exact board state this wants: opponents receive creatures, attack each other, and Cut a Deal cashes in on the chaos.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gluntch, the Bestower
Gluntch, the Bestower hands creatures to opponents specifically to enable group-slug and political payoffs, so Cut a Deal is almost always drawing three cards by the time you cast it — it's the natural top-end draw spell for the deck.
Heliod, the Radiant Dawn
Heliod, the Radiant Dawn runs an enchantment-heavy package that wants card density, and Cut a Deal rewards the combat-forward, attack-opponents-into-each-other political line Heliod decks often pursue.
Iroh, Tea Master
Iroh, Tea Master rewards helping opponents and benefits from a wide, active board, so Cut a Deal converts the combat activity Iroh incentivizes directly into card advantage.
Mog, Moogle Warrior
Mog, Moogle Warrior cares about attacking and rewards aggressive group dynamics, which means Cut a Deal reliably draws two or three cards in the turns after Mog starts swinging.
Mathas, Fiend Seeker
Mathas, Fiend Seeker sets bounties that encourage opponents to attack each other, and Cut a Deal punishes the very combat activity Mathas provokes by refilling your hand on the cheap.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Cut a Deal is a Commander card through and through — the payoff scales directly with opponent count, and three cards for three mana in a four-player game is legitimately strong. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but irrelevant; sorcery-speed draw that requires opponents to have been dealt combat damage doesn't come close to competing with Brainstorm or Ancestral Recall. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where it sees occasional play, again because the two-player cap hurts it less in pods than in true one-on-one.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.42 bulk tier
At $0.42, Cut a Deal sits firmly in bulk territory despite being a genuine role-player in political Commander decks. Bulk rares with narrow-but-real demand tend to stay flat rather than spike, so this is a safe pickup at current price rather than a card to speculate on.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Gluntch, the Bestower
- Heliod, the Radiant Dawn
- Iroh, Tea Master
- Mog, Moogle Warrior
- Mathas, Fiend Seeker
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.