Culling the Weak
Exodus (EXO) #55 · Common · Instant
Mana cost: {B}
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.
"The blood of the weak shall be the ink with which we scribe great Yawgmoth's glorious name."
—Stronghold architect, journal
Illustrated by Scott M. Fischer · Released June 15, 1998
Prices
- Nonfoil: $8.39 USD · €7.57 EUR
Nonfoil price over the last 90 days: up $0.88 USD (11.7%) to $8.39 USD; low $6.55 USD, high $8.39 USD.
Printings
- Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive #27 (SOA) · Rare · 2026 · $10.36 USD
- Secret Lair Drop #1818 (SLD) · Rare · 2025 · $19.96 USD
- Secret Lair Drop #883 (SLD) · Rare · 2025 · $152.38 USD foil
- Mystery Booster 2 #40 (MB2) · Common · 2024 · $6.68 USD
- Exodus #55 (this printing) · Common · 1998 · $8.39 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Not legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2013-04-15 · wotc — Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell.
- 2013-04-15 · wotc — You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you cannot cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you cannot sacrifice additional creatures.
Played in these commander decks
- Tymna the Weaver · in 32% of 50 decks
- Marrow-Gnawer · in 19% of 47 decks
- Syr Konrad, the Grim · in 18% of 40 decks
- Meren of Clan Nel Toth · in 15% of 48 decks
- Reyhan, Last of the Abzan · in 14% of 49 decks
- Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver · in 13% of 45 decks
- Imotekh the Stormlord · in 11% of 44 decks
- Caesar, Legion's Emperor · in 9% of 46 decks