Exsanguinate
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Combos with Exsanguinate
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Channel Infinite
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Yavimaya Bloomsage // Channel Infinite
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Rowan, Scion of War Wall of Blood Infinite
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Skirge Familiar Peer into the Abyss Infinite
- Near-infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Near-infinite looting
- Near-infinite self-discard triggers
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2011-01-01
Players can lose more life than they have. For example, say you're playing a multiplayer game in which one of your opponents has 3 life and your other opponent has 10 life. If you cast Exsanguinate with X of 4, your opponents will wind up at -1 life and 6 life, respectively. You'll gain 8 life.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Exsanguinate, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Y'shtola, Night's Blessed | 5 | 0 | — |
| Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer | 1 | 1 | — |
| Clavileño, First of the Blessed | 1 | 0 | — |
| Fire Lord Azula | 1 | 0 | — |
| Gollum, Riddle Master | 1 | 0 | — |
| Jorn, God of Winter | 1 | 0 | — |
| Karlov of the Ghost Council | 1 | 0 | — |
| Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 6 decks
- Esper 5 decks
- Rakdos 3 decks
- Orzhov 3 decks
- Sultai 2 decks
- Grixis 1 deck
Exsanguinate price history
The Foundations #173 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.41 | $0.91 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.42 | $0.95 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.39 | $0.98 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.38 | $0.92 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.39 | $0.90 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.41 | $0.97 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.43 | $1.01 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.45 | $1.04 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.38 | $1.04 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Exsanguinate
9 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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
The List
- Normal
- —
- Normal
- $0.34
- Foil
- —
- Normal
- $0.41
- Foil
- $0.91
Foundations Jumpstart
- Normal
- $0.37
- Normal
- $1.06
- Foil
- $1.17
Inverted
- Normal
- $3.89
- Foil
- $10.08
- Normal
- $1.33
The List
- Normal
- $0.97
Scars of Mirrodin
- Normal
- $0.86
- Foil
- $10.12
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Exsanguinate. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.
