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Etali, Primal Conqueror

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur // Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Elder Dinosaur MV 7

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

Trample

When Etali enters, each player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among the nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

9G/P: Transform Etali. Activate only as a sorcery.

Trample, indestructible

Whenever Etali deals combat damage to a player, they get that many poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Rulings

7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2023-04-14

    If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the card.

  • 2023-04-14

    If an exiled card has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

  • 2023-04-14

    Any cards not cast, including land cards, remain in exile. They can’t be cast on later turns.

  • 2023-04-14

    Losing the game because a player (preferably an opponent) has ten or more poison counters is a rule of the game. Etali, Primal Sickness doesn’t have to still be on the battlefield when someone (preferably an opponent) gets their tenth poison counter.

  • 2023-04-14

    In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any spells or permanents you control from Etali’s ability are exiled.

  • 2023-04-14

    If you cast more than one of the exiled cards, you choose the order in which to cast them. A spell you cast this way can be the target of a later spell you cast this way. However, permanent spells cast this way won’t resolve until you’re done casting spells, so the permanents they become can’t be the target of spells cast this way. For example, if you exile Twincast and Lightning Strike, you can cast Lightning Strike and then cast Twincast targeting it; but if you exile a creature card and an Aura card, you can’t cast that Aura targeting that creature.

  • 2023-04-14

    If you cast any of the exiled cards, you do so as part of the resolution of the triggered ability. You can’t wait to cast them later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on a card’s type are ignored.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Etali, Primal Conqueror, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
Games played 8
Win rate 12.5%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 2 6 16.7%
Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 1 2 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Naya 2 decks
  • Gruul 1 deck

Every version of Etali, Primal Conqueror

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.

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