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Cut Your Losses

Sorcery

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.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Magic Online Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3283
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Cut Your Losses card art
Cut Your Losses mills half a target player's library — rounded up — for six mana, which is a game-ending threat in any deck built around mill. Pair it with Bruvac the Grandiloquent and that 'half' becomes the entire library, since Bruvac doubles every mill trigger and the rounding pushes the second half over the top.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Bruvac the Grandiloquent

Bruvac the Grandiloquent

62.5% of decks · synergy 0.58

Bruvac the Grandiloquent is the defining home for Cut Your Losses — Bruvac's doubling effect turns a half-library mill into a full-library kill on a single target, making this a one-card win condition the moment your commander is on board.

02

The Emperor of Palamecia

51.7% of decks · synergy 0.51

The Emperor of Palamecia leans on repeated, scalable mill payoffs, and Cut Your Losses supplies the single biggest mill event available at instant speed — enough to close out a stalled game or set up a graveyard recursion loop depending on the build.

03
Lord Xander, the Collector

Lord Xander, the Collector

44.3% of decks · synergy 0.44

Lord Xander, the Collector already strips hands and sacrifices permanents on attack, so Cut Your Losses fits as the library-removal finisher that completes the trio of resource denial — you're not just winning on the board, you're erasing everything an opponent has left.

04
Grolnok, the Omnivore

Grolnok, the Omnivore

40.0% of decks · synergy 0.39

Grolnok, the Omnivore wants to mill itself as much as opponents, and Cut Your Losses is one of the most efficient ways to load the graveyard with frogs and fuel for Grolnok's exile-to-cast engine in a single shot.

05
The Mindskinner

The Mindskinner

40.3% of decks · synergy 0.36

The Mindskinner taxes opponents on every mill event, so Cut Your Losses — milling half a library at once — translates into a massive, immediate life payment or permanent sacrifice that can single-handedly eliminate a player from the game.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Cut Your Losses is a Commander card at heart — the one-target restriction that would be crippling in competitive formats is mostly irrelevant when you only need to eliminate one opponent at a time. In Legacy and Vintage it's too slow and too narrow; dedicated mill decks in those formats have cheaper, more redundant options that don't ask for six mana. Modern and Pioneer mill strategies similarly won't touch it when Tasha's Hideous Laughter and Fractured Sanity exist at lower costs with broader application. In Commander, though, Cut Your Losses hits the sweet spot of being a legitimate win condition rather than an incremental threat, especially the moment any doubling effect enters the picture.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Cut Your Losses isn't currently available in our index, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for a live number. Given its narrow application as a mill-deck payoff with a real combo ceiling, it tends to hold modest value — worth picking up before a Bruvac spike, not after.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.