Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher card art

Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher

Legendary Creature — Vampire Soldier MV 5

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What it does

Flying

Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Carmen and you gain 1 life.

Whenever Carmen attacks, return up to one target permanent card with mana value less than or equal to Carmen's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Combos with Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher

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.

  • Breath of Fury Infinite
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    • Infinite combat damage
    • Infinite combat phases
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite untap of creatures you control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Veinwitch Coven Phyrexian Altar Infinite
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Veinwitch Coven Phyrexian Altar Infinite
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite lifegain
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Trudge Garden Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Ghave, Guru of Spores Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Warren Soultrader Gravecrawler Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Yawgmoth, Thran Physician Nest of Scarabs Infinite
    • Near-infinite lifegain triggers
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Near-infinite creature LTB
    • Near-infinite death triggers
    • Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Near-infinite card draw
    • Near-infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite -1/-1 counters
    • Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Stimulus Package Warren Soultrader Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

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Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2023-11-10

    If a permanent is sacrificed to pay a cost of a spell or ability, Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher's second ability will resolve before that spell or ability. Conversely, if a permanent is sacrificed during the resolution of a spell or ability, that spell or ability will finish resolving before Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher's second ability is put onto the stack.

  • 2023-11-10

    If another effect causes Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher's power to be less than the mana value of the target card as its last ability tries to resolve, the target is illegal. You won't return the target card to the battlefield.

  • 2023-11-10

    If you sacrifice Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher, its second ability will still trigger.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Clavileño, First of the Blessed 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Orzhov 1 deck

Every version of Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher

2 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.

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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.