Grave Venerations
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Combos with Grave Venerations
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.
- Veinwitch Coven Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite storm count
- Veinwitch Coven Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- The Locust God Unfulfilled Desires Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite looting
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Near-infinite colorless mana
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Mortuary Viscera Seer Gwenom, Remorseless Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite scry 1
- Infinite storm count
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2025-11-17
If combat damage dealt to the monarch causes that player to lose the game, the triggered ability that causes the controller of the attacking creature to become the monarch doesn't resolve. In most cases, the controller of the attacking creature will still become the monarch as it is likely their turn.
- 2025-11-17
There are two inherent triggered abilities associated with being the monarch. These triggered abilities have no source and are controlled by the player who was the monarch at the time the abilities triggered. The full texts of these abilities are "At the beginning of the monarch's end step, that player draws a card" and "Whenever a creature deals combat damage to the monarch, its controller becomes the monarch."
- 2025-11-17
If the monarch leaves the game during another player's turn, that player becomes the monarch. If the monarch leaves the game during their turn, the next player in turn order becomes the monarch.
- 2025-11-17
If the triggered ability that causes the monarch to draw a card goes on the stack and a different player becomes the monarch before that ability resolves, the first player will still draw the card.
- 2025-11-17
The game starts with no monarch. As a player becomes the monarch, the current monarch (if any) ceases being the monarch. There is never more than one monarch at a time.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Grave Venerations, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auntie Ool, Cursewretch | 3 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Jund 3 decks
Every version of Grave Venerations
2 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.
Extended Art
Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander
- Normal
- $1.23
Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander
- Normal
- $0.44
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Grave Venerations. 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.
