Sazacap's Brew
Instant
Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.)
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Target player draws two cards. If the gift was promised, target creature you control gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #4121
Sazacap's Brew replaces itself, creates a Food token, and adds an instant or sorcery to your graveyard — three things on one card for two mana. Mabel, Heir to Cragflame decks are the natural home, but any shell that cares about instants, sorceries, or graveyard depth will find real use here.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mabel, Heir to Cragflame
Mabel, Heir to Cragflame triggers off Food tokens and wants a full graveyard to fuel her heroic recursion, and Sazacap's Brew delivers both on a single card.
Fire Lord Azula
Fire Lord Azula rewards casting instants and sorceries, so Sazacap's Brew is a cheap, cantripping way to advance the spell count while banking a Food for incidental life gain.
Vadrik, Astral Archmage
Vadrik, Astral Archmage reduces the cost of instants and sorceries based on power, making Sazacap's Brew a near-free cantrip late in the game while still stocking the graveyard.
Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate cares about filling the graveyard cheaply, and Sazacap's Brew does exactly that while drawing a card to keep the hand stocked.
Alania, Divergent Storm
Alania, Divergent Storm copies instants and sorceries cast by opponents, but the deck still wants cheap spells of its own to trigger storm-count payoffs — Sazacap's Brew is low-commitment filler that does real work.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Sazacap's Brew is legal everywhere but sees meaningful play almost exclusively in Commander, where the combination of cantrip, Food token, and graveyard setup has enough overlap with powerful archetypes to earn a slot. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, two mana for draw-one is too slow and the Food rarely matters outside of dedicated life-gain synergy shells, which have better options. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where it could theoretically see fringe play in a Food-themed or self-mill build, but the format's efficient cantrips make it a tough sell. Commander is where Sazacap's Brew earns its keep: the three-for-one texture matters in a 100-card singleton format where redundancy is scarce and every card needs to pull weight.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Sazacap's Brew is firmly bulk — the kind of card you pick up without thinking twice when building a Food or spellslinger deck. Bulk commons and uncommons with narrow appeal rarely appreciate, so treat it as a cheap role-player rather than a spec.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.