Cryptborn Horror card art

Cryptborn Horror

Creature — Horror MV 3

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What it does

Trample

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total life lost by your opponents this turn.

Combos with Cryptborn Horror

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.

  • Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Ramos, Dragon Engine Agatha's Soul Cauldron Deadeye Navigator Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite blinking
    • Infinite colored mana
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2012-10-01

    If no opponent has lost life on the turn Cryptborn Horror enters, it will enter with no +1/+1 counters on it and be put into its owner's graveyard (unless something else is raising its toughness).

  • 2012-10-01

    Remember, damage dealt to a player causes that player to lose that much life (unless the source has infect).

  • 2012-10-01

    In multiplayer games, life lost the turn Cryptborn Horror enters by opponents who left the game later that turn will count toward the value of X.

  • 2012-10-01

    Cryptborn Horror cares about the total life lost, not necessarily what an opponent's life total is compared to what it was at the beginning of the turn. For example, if an opponent loses 5 life and then gains 10 life on the turn Cryptborn Horror enters, it will enter with five +1/+1 counters on it.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Cryptborn Horror, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Rakdos 1 deck

Every version of Cryptborn Horror

2 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.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Cryptborn Horror. 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.