Geralf's Messenger
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
This creature enters tapped.
When this creature enters, target opponent loses 2 life.
Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Combos with Geralf's Messenger
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.
- Ghave, Guru of Spores Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight Viscera Seer Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite scry 1
- Ghave, Guru of Spores Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Ghave, Guru of Spores Cryptic Trilobite Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana that can only be spent to activate abilities
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Champion of the Weird Vein Ripper Infinite
- Infinite -1/-1 counters
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Skeleton Ship Intruder Alarm Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite untap of creatures
- Skeleton Ship Intruder Alarm Viscera Seer Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite scry 1
- Infinite untap of creatures
- Skeleton Ship Intruder Alarm Carrion Feeder Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite untap of creatures
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Geralf's Messenger, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yawgmoth, Thran Physician | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 1 deck
Every version of Geralf's Messenger
4 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.

Secret Lair Drop
- Foil
- $10.77

Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $3.49
- Foil
- $3.50

The List
- Normal
- $6.77

Dark Ascension
- Normal
- $3.21
- Foil
- $10.69
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Geralf's Messenger — 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.