Gratuitous Violence
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
If a creature you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage instead.
Combos with Gratuitous Violence
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.
- Malignus Terror of the Peaks Infinite
- Near-infinite damage
- Target opponent loses the game
- Vigor Triskelion Infinite
- Infinite damage
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Malignus Burning Anger Infinite
- Near-infinite damage
- Target player loses the game on each of your turns
- Heartless Hidetsugu Pariah's Shield Infinite
- Near-infinite damage
- Toralf, God of Fury // Toralf's Hammer Ajani's Presence Infinite
- Infinite damage to one opponent
- Toralf, God of Fury // Toralf's Hammer Deathless Angel Infinite
- Infinite damage to one opponent
- Phyrexian Vindicator Martyrdom Infinite
- Infinite damage to one opponent
- Malignus Chandra's Ignition Infinite
- Each opponent loses the game
- Near-infinite damage
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 Gratuitous Violence, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bello, Bard of the Brambles | 2 | 0 | — |
| Kratos, God of War | 2 | 0 | — |
| Atarka, World Render | 1 | 0 | — |
| Gishath, Sun's Avatar | 1 | 0 | — |
| Muerra, Trash Tactician | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Gruul 4 decks
- Mono-Red 2 decks
- Naya 1 deck
Gratuitous Violence price history
The Foundations #715 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Foil |
|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.94 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $0.82 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $0.75 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $0.78 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $0.68 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $0.64 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $0.67 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $0.72 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $0.66 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $0.64 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $0.54 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.46 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.40 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.41 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.40 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.37 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.35 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.37 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.41 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.40 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.39 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.42 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Gratuitous Violence
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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $4.12
- Foil
- $4.01
- Foil
- $0.94
- Normal
- $0.99
- Normal
- $1.54
- Normal
- $1.05
- Foil
- $11.19
- Normal
- $3.64
- Foil
- $28.19
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Gratuitous Violence. 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.
