Demon's Horn
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.
Combos with Demon's Horn
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.
- Acererak the Archlich Carnival of Souls Urza's Incubator Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite Treasure tokens
- Near-infinite colored mana
- Near-infinite creature tokens
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Near-infinite ventures into the dungeon
- Near-infinite storm count
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2009-10-01
The ability triggers whenever any player, not just you, casts a black spell.
- 2009-10-01
If a player casts a black spell, Demon’s Horn’s ability triggers and is put on the stack on top of that spell. Demon’s Horn’s ability will resolve (causing you to gain 1 life) before the spell does.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Demon's Horn, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sahir, Visitor in Darkness | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 1 deck
Every version of Demon's Horn
11 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.

Duel Decks Anthology: Divine vs. Demonic
- Normal
- $1.13

Magic 2012
- Normal
- $0.20
- Foil
- $0.55

Salvat 2011
- Normal
- —

Magic 2011
- Normal
- $0.24
- Foil
- $1.33

Duels of the Planeswalkers
- Normal
- $0.45

Magic 2010
- Normal
- $0.27
- Foil
- $0.50

Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic
- Normal
- $0.26

Tenth Edition
- Normal
- $0.31
- Foil
- $0.77

Ninth Edition
- Normal
- $0.39

Ninth Edition
- Foil
- $0.87

Darksteel
- Normal
- $0.26
- Foil
- $1.42
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Demon's Horn — 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.