The Battlefield

Cut Your Losses

$1.21

Fraying Sanity

$0.81

AI DraftFeb 26, 2026

Cut Your Losses + Fraying Sanity

Overview

If you cast Cut Your Losses and pay its Casualty 2 cost, you sacrifice a creature as part of casting (see ) and a copy of Cut Your Losses is created that will resolve before the original spell ([Ruling 2022-04-29]). Each resolution mills cards into the targeted player's graveyard; all cards put into the enchanted player's graveyard this turn are counted by Fraying Sanity’s triggered ability at the beginning of the next end step ([Ruling 2017-07-14]; see how X is determined at resolution in ).

Step 1

You cast Cut Your Losses and, as part of casting it, may pay the Casualty 2 cost by sacrificing a creature with power 2 or greater; that sacrifice happens during casting per the spell text and casting rules ().

Step 2

When you pay the casualty cost, a copy of Cut Your Losses is created and placed on the stack such that it will resolve before the original spell ([Ruling 2022-04-29]).

Step 3

You may choose a new target for the copy as specified by the Casualty text; both the copy and the original have a target player subject to target legality checks ().

Step 4

The copy resolves first and instructs its targeted player to mill half their library, rounded down; those cards are put into that player’s graveyard immediately as the mill effect resolves.

Step 5

After the copy has finished resolving, the original Cut Your Losses resolves and causes the (then possibly smaller) half of that player’s remaining library to be milled, and those cards are also put into that player’s graveyard.

Step 6

At the beginning of the next end step, Fraying Sanity’s triggered ability triggers for the enchanted player and will mill X cards, where X equals the number of cards that were put into that player’s graveyard that turn; this count includes the cards put there by the copy and the original even if Fraying Sanity wasn’t on the battlefield when they were milled ([Ruling 2017-07-14]).

Step 7

When Fraying Sanity’s triggered ability is applied/resolves it determines the number X once using the game information (cards put into graveyard this turn) per , then mills that many cards.

Resolution

When you pay Cut Your Losses’ Casualty 2, the copy is created and will resolve before the original spell ([Ruling 2022-04-29]). The copy resolves, mills half of the target player’s library (rounded down) and those cards are put into that player’s graveyard; then the original resolves and mills half of the remaining library. All cards put into the enchanted player’s graveyard that turn (including those put there before Fraying Sanity was on the battlefield) are included when Fraying Sanity’s ability determines X at the beginning of the end step ([Ruling 2017-07-14]; see and ).

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