Champion of the Weird
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
As an additional cost to cast this spell, behold a Goblin and exile it. (Exile a Goblin you control or a Goblin card from your hand.)
Pay 1 life, Blight 2: Target opponent blights 2. Activate only as a sorcery.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.
Combos with Champion of the Weird
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.
- Vengeful Vampire Vein Ripper Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite -1/-1 counters
- Mikaeus, the Unhallowed Verdant Sun's Avatar Infinite
- Infinite -1/-1 counters
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
10 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2025-11-17
The creature you choose to put -1/-1 counters on doesn't have to have enough toughness to survive the process. For example, if you blight 2, you can choose to put the counters on a 1/1 creature you control.
- 2025-11-17
If a creature has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, state-based actions remove the same number of each so that it has only one kind of those counters on it. For example, if a creature has three +1/+1 counters on it and two -1/-1 counters are put on it, state-based actions will remove two of each of those kinds of counters, leaving the creature with just one +1/+1 counter.
- 2025-11-17
Once you've announced that you're casting a spell or activating an ability, players can't take actions until you've finished doing so. Notably, opponents can't try to destroy or otherwise remove your creatures to stop you from blighting as part of paying the cost of that spell or ability.
- 2025-11-17
All of the -1/-1 counters must be put on a single creature. You can't choose to split them up between multiple creatures.
- 2025-11-17
If a creature that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner's graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, effects that refer to the counters on that creature when it died will see all of those +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters.
- 2025-11-17
If a cost to cast a spell includes revealing a card, that card remains revealed from the time the spell is announced until the time it leaves the stack.
- 2025-11-17
If you can't place -1/-1 counters on any creatures you control (probably because you control no creatures), you can't choose to blight.
- 2025-11-17
If an effect refers to a "[subtype] card," it refers only to a card that has that subtype. For example, Glen Elendra's Answer creates a Faerie token and features a Faerie in its art, but it isn't a Faerie card.
- 2025-11-17
If a card in your hand is already revealed (perhaps because it was revealed to pay a cost of a spell that's still on the stack or due to the effect of a card like Telepathy), you may reveal it again to pay the cost of another spell or ability that requires you to reveal a card from your hand.
- 2025-11-17
If Champion of the Weird is countered or otherwise fails to resolve, the beheld card will remain in exile indefinitely.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Champion of the Weird, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auntie Ool, Cursewretch | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Jund 1 deck
Champion of the Weird price history
The Lorwyn Eclipsed #95 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 27, 2026 | $0.31 | $0.60 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.27 | $0.59 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $0.26 | $0.62 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $0.26 | $0.61 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.61 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.61 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.61 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.61 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $0.26 | $0.61 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $0.26 | $0.62 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.27 | $0.65 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.26 | $0.65 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.27 | $0.65 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.30 | $0.65 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.29 | $0.65 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.30 | $0.64 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.29 | $0.64 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.32 | $0.64 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.33 | $0.64 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.33 | $0.63 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.33 | $0.65 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.32 | $0.65 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.32 | $0.66 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Champion of the Weird
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.
Extended Art
- Normal
- $0.34
- Foil
- $0.64
- Normal
- $0.31
- Foil
- $0.60
Promo
Lorwyn Eclipsed Promos
- Normal
- $0.30
- Foil
- $1.84
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Champion of the Weird. 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.
