Corpse Knight
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever another creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life.
Combos with Corpse Knight
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Plague of Vermin Infinite
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Tree of Perdition Dollhouse of Horrors Infinite
- Near-infinite lifeloss for target opponent
- Target opponent loses the game
- Tree of Perdition Offspring's Revenge Infinite
- Near-infinite lifeloss for target opponent
- Target opponent loses the game
- Ghave, Guru of Spores Ashnod's Altar Strangleroot Geist Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Ghave, Guru of Spores Phyrexian Altar Strangleroot Geist Infinite
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Ghave, Guru of Spores Cryptic Trilobite Strangleroot Geist Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana that can only be spent to activate abilities
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Luminous Broodmoth Downdraft Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Ghave, Guru of Spores Ashnod's Altar Young Wolf Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
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
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2019-07-12
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Corpse Knight's ability causes the opposing team to lose 1 life twice.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Corpse Knight, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temmet, Naktamun's Will | 2 | 0 | — |
| Athreos, God of Passage | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Esper 2 decks
- Orzhov 1 deck
Every version of Corpse Knight
5 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Aetherdrift Commander
- Normal
- $0.38

March of the Machine Commander
- Normal
- $0.69

Inverted
Core Set 2020 Promos
- Normal
- $2.05
- Foil
- $6.33

- Normal
- $0.59
- Foil
- $3.03

Promo
- Normal
- $0.40
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Corpse Knight — a name search across every version, for 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.