Brutal Hordechief
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever a creature you control attacks, defending player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
3R/WR/W: Creatures your opponents control block this turn if able, and you choose how those creatures block.
Rulings
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2014-11-24
You’ll choose how each creature controlled by an opponent blocks, even if that creature wasn’t on the battlefield or wasn’t controlled by an opponent as the activated ability resolved.
- 2014-11-24
In a multiplayer game, if more than one player activates Brutal Hordechief’s activated ability on the same turn, the controller of the last ability to resolve will choose how any creatures controlled by players who didn’t resolve this ability will block.
- 2014-11-24
All blocking declarations must still be legal.
- 2014-11-24
The defending player affected by Brutal Hordechief’s triggered ability is determined relative to the creature that attacked. For example, if Brutal Hordechief attacked one opponent and two other creatures you control attacked another opponent, the first opponent would lose 1 life and the second opponent would lose 2 life. You’d gain a total of 3 life.
- 2014-11-24
If there’s a cost associated with having a creature block and you choose for that creature to block, its controller can choose to pay that cost or not. If that player decides to not pay that cost, you must propose a new set of blocking creatures.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Brutal Hordechief, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isshin, Two Heavens as One | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mardu 1 deck
Brutal Hordechief price history
The Commander 2016 #108 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $3.78 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $3.78 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $3.72 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $3.67 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $3.69 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $3.71 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $3.78 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $3.73 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $3.72 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $3.73 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $3.76 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Brutal Hordechief
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.
- Normal
- $3.78
- Normal
- $1.96
- Foil
- $8.85
Promo
Fate Reforged Promos
- Foil
- $9.93
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Brutal Hordechief. 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.
