Tithe Taker
Creature — Human Soldier
During your turn, spells your opponents cast cost 
more to cast and abilities your opponents activate cost more to activate unless they're mana abilities.
Afterlife 1 (When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ravnica Allegiance
- Price
- $0.43
- EDHREC rank
- #7330
Tithe Taker taxes every instant your opponents cast on your turn and replaces itself with a 1/1 flying spirit token when it dies — meaningful friction and board presence stapled to a two-mana body. The Nim Deathmantle loop and Teysa Karlov's death-trigger doubling both reward running it, so the ceiling is higher than the price suggests.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Teysa Karlov
Teysa Karlov doubles every death trigger, which means Tithe Taker dying once produces two spirit tokens instead of one — and in a deck already built around sacrificing creatures repeatedly, that compounding adds up fast.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Tithe Taker earns its slot: the tax on instants disrupts counterspell-heavy tables at exactly the right moment, and the afterlife token feeds sacrifice engines that define the white-black archetype. In Pioneer and Modern it sees fringe play in white aggro or tokens shells, mostly as a sideboard hedge against reactive strategies. Legacy and Vintage have too many zero- or one-mana answers to make the tax relevant, so Tithe Taker doesn't factor into those formats. For Commander players, the question isn't whether to run it — it's whether your deck cares enough about death triggers to reward the slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Nim DeathmantleAshnod's AltarTithe Taker
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Lethal VaporsTeferi's ProtectionTithe Taker
Skip all your future turns, causing your opponents to eventually draw from an empty library and lose the game; You have protection from everything; Your life total can't change; Lock
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Ashnod's AltarKenrith, the Returned KingPrismiteTithe TakerTraining Grounds
Infinite colored mana; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite card draw for any number of players; Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control; Infinite draw triggers for any number of opponents; Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
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Ashnod's AltarKenrith, the Returned KingPrismiteTithe TakerBiomancer's Familiar
Infinite colored mana; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite card draw for any number of players; Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control; Infinite draw triggers for any number of opponents; Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
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Current price
$0.43 bulk tier
At $0.43, Tithe Taker is firmly bulk, which makes it one of the easiest pickups in any white-black sacrifice build. Bulk rares with this much Commander demand tend to stay in this range — don't expect movement, just buy the copy and move on.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.