Crypt Ghast
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional .
Combos with Crypt Ghast
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.
- Magus of the Candelabra Staff of Domination Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite untap of creatures you control
- Infinite untap of lands you control
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-01-12
You may pay W/B a maximum of one time for each extort triggered ability. You decide whether to pay when the ability resolves.
- 2024-01-12
The amount of life you gain from extort is based on the total amount of life lost, not necessarily the number of opponents you have. For example, if your opponent's life total can't change (perhaps because that player controls Platinum Emperion), you won't gain any life.
- 2024-01-12
The extort ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. The ability resolves even if that spell is countered.
- 2024-01-12
The extort ability doesn't target any player.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Crypt Ghast, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Syr Konrad, the Grim | 1 | 3 | — |
| Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer | 1 | 1 | — |
| Athreos, God of Passage | 1 | 0 | — |
| Gollum, Riddle Master | 1 | 0 | — |
| Karlov of the Ghost Council | 1 | 0 | — |
| Olinda the Oblivious | 1 | 0 | — |
| Yawgmoth, Thran Physician | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 5 decks
- Orzhov 2 decks
Crypt Ghast price history
The Ravnica Remastered #70 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 6, 2026 | $18.21 | $19.63 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $18.21 | $20.02 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $18.69 | $20.02 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $18.58 | $20.02 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $17.77 | $20.02 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $18.01 | $20.40 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $17.99 | $19.96 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Crypt Ghast
8 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.
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $24.19
- Foil
- $51.14
Inverted
Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
- Foil
- $15.86
Ravnica Remastered
- Normal
- $15.04
- Foil
- $17.35
Ravnica Remastered
- Foil
- $426.10
Inverted
Ravnica Remastered
- Normal
- $16.95
- Foil
- $25.40
Ravnica Remastered
- Normal
- $18.21
- Foil
- $19.63
Commander 2014
- Normal
- $12.69
Gatecrash
- Normal
- $16.90
- Foil
- $15.49
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Crypt Ghast. 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.
