Carth the Lion
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever Carth enters or a planeswalker you control dies, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal a planeswalker card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Planeswalkers' loyalty abilities you activate cost an additional [+1] to activate.
Combos with Carth the Lion
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.
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion Jace, Cunning Castaway Infinite
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite copies of a specific planeswalker
- Teferi, Temporal Archmage The Chain Veil Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
- Infinite planeswalker activations
- Wrenn and Realmbreaker Lotus Petal The Chain Veil Infinite
- Cast all permanent cards in your graveyard
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite storm count
- Wrenn and Realmbreaker Lotus Petal Oath of Teferi Infinite
- Cast all permanent cards in your graveyard
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite storm count
- Liliana Vess Nexus of Fate Spark Double Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Skip your draw steps
- Lock
- Liliana Vess Beacon of Tomorrows Helm of the Host Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Skip your draw steps
- Lock
- Karn, the Great Creator Ugin's Nexus Throne of Geth Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- The Chain Veil Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner Ashnod's Altar Chandra, Acolyte of Flame Infinite
- Infinite activations of most planeswalkers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice 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.
- 2021-06-18
The total cost of a planeswalker's loyalty ability is calculated before any counters are added or removed. If a loyalty ability normally costs [-3] to activate, you do not remove three counters from it and then put one counter on it. You remove two counters at one time when you pay the cost.
- 2021-06-18
If you somehow manage to control two Carths (perhaps because of Spark Double), the cost-changing effect is cumulative. In total, loyalty abilities will cost an additional [+2] to activate.
- 2021-06-18
If an effect replaces the number of counters that would be placed on a planeswalker, such as that of Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider, that replacement happens only once, at the time payment is made.
- 2021-06-18
If a planeswalker's loyalty ability normally has a cost of [+1], Carth's ability makes it cost [+2] instead. A cost of [0] would become [+1], and a cost of [-6] would become [-5].
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Carth the Lion, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tam, the Possibility | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Five-Color 1 deck
Carth the Lion price history
The Modern Horizons 2 #189 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 13, 2026 | $0.26 | $0.41 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.41 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.27 | $0.41 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.28 | $0.41 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.31 | $0.42 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.30 | $0.42 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.28 | $0.43 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.27 | $0.43 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.26 | $0.42 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.27 | $0.42 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Carth the Lion
4 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
- $0.26
- Foil
- $0.41
- Normal
- $0.42
- Foil
- $0.33
- Etched
- $0.49
Extended Art
- Normal
- $0.52
- Foil
- $0.89
Promo
Modern Horizons 2 Promos
- Foil
- $1.14
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Carth the Lion. 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.
