Driver of the Dead card art

Driver of the Dead

Creature — Vampire MV 4

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

When this creature dies, return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Combos with Driver of the Dead

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.

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

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-11-08

    If Driver of the Dead dies at the same time as a creature with mana value 2 or less, you can target that card and return it to the battlefield.

  • 2024-11-08

    If a card in a player's graveyard has X in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.

  • 2024-11-08

    If a creature card with mana value 2 or less becomes a copy of Driver of the Dead and dies, it can be the target of its own ability.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Driver of the Dead, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — 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
Akawalli, the Seething Tower 1 0 —
Edgar Markov 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Golgari 1 deck
  • Mardu 1 deck

Every version of Driver of the Dead

6 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.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Driver of the Dead — 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.