Embodiment of Agonies
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Flying, deathtouch
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each different mana cost among nonland cards in your graveyard. (For example, {2}{B} and {1}{B}{B} are different mana costs.)
Rulings
6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2019-07-12
If you return Embodiment of Agonies from your graveyard to the battlefield, its last ability counts itself.
- 2019-07-12
The mana cost of a split card is determined by its two halves combined. For example, the mana cost of Fire//Ice in your graveyard is 2, the same as the mana cost of Ral's Outburst.
- 2019-07-12
Alternative costs, additional costs you could pay, cost increases, and cost reductions are all ignored by Embodiment of Agonies.
- 2019-07-12
Embodiment of Agonies checks the mana symbols in a card's mana cost. For example, a mana cost of X is different than a mana cost of 0.
- 2019-07-12
Every Magic card has either no mana cost or exactly one mana cost. A card with no mana cost is never counted by Embodiment of Agonies. A card with a mana cost of 0 is counted.
- 2019-07-12
Hybrid mana symbols are treated as the actual symbols, not as either of their two components individually. For example, B/R, , and are three different mana costs.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Embodiment of Agonies, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ardyn, the Usurper | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 1 deck
Every version of Embodiment of Agonies
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.
- Normal
- $0.43
- Foil
- $0.40
Promo
Core Set 2020 Promos
- Normal
- $0.45
- Foil
- $0.58
Promo
Core Set 2020 Promos
- Foil
- $0.50
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Embodiment of Agonies — 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.
