Deathbringer Thoctar
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever another creature dies, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.
Combos with Deathbringer Thoctar
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.
- Heliod, Sun-Crowned Infinite
- Infinite damage
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Gift of Doom Infinite
- Destroy all creatures opponents control
- Destroy each creature that enters the battlefield under an opponent's control
- Lock
- Dismiss into Dream Infinite
- Destroy all creatures opponents control
- Destroy each creature that enters the battlefield under an opponent's control
- Lock
- Archetype of Finality Infinite
- Destroy all creatures opponents control
- Destroy each creature that enters the battlefield under an opponent's control
- Lock
- Basilisk Collar Infinite
- Destroy all creatures opponents control
- Destroy each creature that enters the battlefield under an opponent's control
- Lock
- Death Baron Infinite
- Destroy all creatures opponents control
- Destroy each creature that enters the battlefield under an opponent's control
- Lock
- Urban Daggertooth Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite proliferate
- Quietus Spike Infinite
- Destroy all creatures opponents control
- Destroy each creature that enters the battlefield under an opponent's control
- Lock
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
2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2009-05-01
If Deathbringer Thoctar and another creature are dealt lethal damage at the same time, Deathbringer Thoctar will be put into a graveyard before it would receive any counters. Its ability will still trigger, but it will do nothing when it resolves.
- 2009-05-01
You may remove any +1/+1 counter from Deathbringer Thoctar to activate its second ability, not just a +1/+1 counter put on it with its first ability.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Deathbringer Thoctar, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mahadi, Emporium Master | 1 | 1 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Rakdos 1 deck
Every version of Deathbringer Thoctar
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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Commander 2013
- Normal
- $0.58

Salvat 2011
- Normal
- —

Alara Reborn
- Normal
- $0.69
- Foil
- $1.05
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Deathbringer Thoctar — 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.