Athreos, God of Passage
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you own dies, return it to your hand unless target opponent pays 3 life.
Combos with Athreos, God of Passage
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Forsaken Miner Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
14 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2014-04-26
You are a creature's owner if the card representing it began the game in your deck, or if it's a token that entered the battlefield under your control.
- 2014-04-26
It doesn't matter who controlled the creature when it died. Athreos's last ability will trigger if you owned that creature.
- 2014-04-26
If there are no legal targets for Athreos's last ability (perhaps because each of your opponents has hexproof), it will be removed from the stack with no effect. No one may pay 3 life and you won't return the creature card to your hand.
- 2014-04-26
Athreos's last ability will trigger if a token creature you own dies. The target opponent has the option to pay 3 life, although the token can't return to your hand.
- 2014-04-26
The target opponent chooses whether to pay 3 life when Athreos's last ability resolves. You won't return the card to your hand if that player pays 3 life or if the card leaves the graveyard before the ability resolves.
- 2020-01-24
The type-changing ability that can make a God not be a creature functions only on the battlefield. It's always a creature card in other zones, regardless of your devotion to its color. It's always a creature spell while it's on the stack.
- 2020-01-24
The abilities of Gods function as long as they're on the battlefield, regardless of whether they're creatures.
- 2020-01-24
If a God stops being a creature, it loses the type creature and the creature type God. It continues to be a legendary enchantment.
- 2020-01-24
As a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color will determine whether any replacement effects that affect creatures entering the battlefield apply to that God. Because replacement effects are considered before the God is on the battlefield, the mana symbols in its mana cost won't be counted when determining this.
- 2020-01-24
Your devotion to two colors is the number of mana symbols among mana costs of permanents you control that are the first color, the second, or both. If an effect counts your devotion to two colors, a hybrid symbol that is both of those colors is counted just once.
- 2020-01-24
If a God is attacking or blocking and it stops being a creature, it will be removed from combat. It won't rejoin combat if it resumes being a creature later during that combat.
- 2020-01-24
If an effect causes a God to lose all abilities, its ability that causes it to stop being a creature still applies if appropriate.
- 2020-01-24
Counters put on a God remain on it while it's not a creature, even if they have no effect.
- 2020-01-24
When a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color (including the mana symbols in the mana cost of the God itself) will determine if a creature entered the battlefield or not for abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
As a commander
Decks built with Athreos, God of Passage in the command zone.
Published decks
Decklists players have published with Athreos, God of Passage in the command zone, newest first. A deck that has been played carries the win rate it earned in real tracked games.
- SuperCooleKorneel 0 games —
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Athreos, God of Passage, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Esika, God of the Tree | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Five-Color 1 deck
Athreos, God of Passage price history
The Journey into Nyx #146 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2026 | $15.33 | $41.71 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $15.23 | $41.71 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $15.05 | $41.71 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $15.10 | $41.71 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $14.72 | $41.71 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $15.21 | $41.71 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Athreos, God of Passage
3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Showcase
Secret Lair Drop
- Foil
- $39.61
The List
- Normal
- $13.78
Journey into Nyx
- Normal
- $15.33
- Foil
- $41.71
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Athreos, God of Passage. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
