Cruel Celebrant
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever this creature or another creature or planeswalker you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Combos with Cruel Celebrant
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.
- Veinwitch Coven Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite storm count
- Veinwitch Coven Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- Trudge Garden Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Warren Soultrader Gravecrawler Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite storm count
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician Nest of Scarabs Infinite
- Destroy all creatures opponents control
- Destroy each creature that enters the battlefield under an opponent's control
- Lock
- Near-infinite -1/-1 counters
- Near-infinite card draw
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Warren Soultrader Chatterfang, Squirrel General Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician Pawn of Ulamog Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Warren Soultrader Mm'menon, Uthros Exile Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite Treasure tokens
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
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2019-05-03
If Cruel Celebrant dies at the same time as one or more other creatures and/or planeswalkers you control, its ability triggers for each of them.
- 2019-05-03
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Cruel Celebrant's ability causes the opposing team to lose 2 life and you gain 1 life.
- 2019-05-03
If a planeswalker that's also a creature dies, Cruel Celebrant's ability triggers only once.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Cruel Celebrant, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athreos, God of Passage | 1 | 0 | — |
| Biollante | 1 | 0 | — |
| Karador, Ghost Chieftain | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Orzhov 1 deck
- Abzan 1 deck
Cruel Celebrant price history
The The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander #267 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 | $2.53 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $2.53 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $2.62 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $2.54 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $2.45 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $2.39 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $2.36 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $2.17 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $2.18 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $2.13 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $2.07 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $1.96 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $1.97 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $1.98 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $1.93 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $1.98 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $2.09 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $2.13 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $2.48 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $2.76 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $2.67 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $2.66 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $3.00 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Cruel Celebrant
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.
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
- Normal
- $2.53
- Normal
- $3.06
- Normal
- $0.70
- Foil
- $14.96
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Cruel Celebrant. 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.
