Ballad of the Black Flag
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I, II, III — Mill three cards. You may put a historic card from among them into your hand. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
IV — Historic spells you cast this turn cost 2 less to cast.
Combos with Ballad of the Black Flag
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.
- Whirlwind Technique Naru Meha, Master Wizard Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite blinking
- Infinite draw triggers for any number of players
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Near-infinite card draw for any number of players
- Near-infinite looting for any number of players
- Near-infinite self-discard triggers for any number of players
- Acererak the Archlich Relic of Legends Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite Treasure tokens
- Near-infinite colored mana
- Near-infinite creature tokens
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Near-infinite storm count
- Near-infinite ventures into the dungeon
- Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury Reflections of Littjara Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty Sensei's Divining Top Infinite
- Near-infinite storm count
- Near-infinite self-discard triggers
- Near-infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite looting
- Evolution Witness Myr Scrapling Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Amareth, the Lustrous Sensei's Divining Top Infinite
- Near-infinite artifact ETB
- Near-infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite storm count
- Sensei's Divining Top Echoes of Eternity Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite storm count
- Sensei's Divining Top Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Near-infinite storm count
- Infinite draw triggers
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-07-05
A card, spell, or permanent is historic if it has the legendary supertype, the artifact card type, or the Saga subtype. Having two of those qualities doesn’t make an object more historic than another or provide an additional bonus—an object either is historic or it isn’t.
- 2024-07-05
An ability that triggers “whenever you cast a historic spell” doesn’t trigger if a historic card is put onto the battlefield without being cast.
- 2024-07-05
Some abilities trigger “whenever you cast a historic spell.” Such an ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
- 2024-07-05
Lands are never cast, so abilities that trigger “whenever you cast a historic spell” won’t trigger if you play a legendary land. They also won’t trigger if a card on the battlefield transforms into a card with the legendary supertype, the artifact card type, or the Saga subtype.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Ballad of the Black Flag, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ezio Auditore da Firenze | 2 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Five-Color 2 decks
Every version of Ballad of the Black Flag
1 printing, 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.
- Normal
- $0.31
- Foil
- $0.44
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Ballad of the Black Flag. 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.
