Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Combos with Gray Merchant of Asphodel
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.
- Rite of Replication Infinite
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink Infinite
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Araumi of the Dead Tide Panharmonicon Infinite
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Yarok, the Desecrated Araumi of the Dead Tide Infinite
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Mikaeus, the Unhallowed Yawgmoth, Thran Physician Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Rot Hulk Phyrexian Delver Carrion Feeder Infinite
- Each opponent loses the game
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Prowling Geistcatcher Phyrexian Delver Viscera Seer Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite scry 1
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifeloss
- Chainer, Dementia Master K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Sadistic Hypnotist Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
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.
Rulings
6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2020-01-24
If you put an Aura on an opponent's permanent, you still control the Aura, and mana symbols in its mana cost count towards your devotion.
- 2020-01-24
Colorless and generic mana symbols ({C}, {0}, {1}, {2}, {X}, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
- 2020-01-24
If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it's still on the battlefield at that time.
- 2020-01-24
Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).
- 2020-01-24
Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
- 2021-03-19
The amount of life you gain is the total amount of life lost, not simply the value of X.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Gray Merchant of Asphodel, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gisa and Geralf | 4 | 0 | — |
| Syr Konrad, the Grim | 1 | 3 | — |
| Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer | 1 | 1 | — |
| Athreos, God of Passage | 1 | 0 | — |
| Chevill, Bane of Monsters | 1 | 0 | — |
| Deadpool, Trading Card | 1 | 0 | — |
| Ghoulcaller Gisa | 1 | 0 | — |
| Gollum, Riddle Master | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 10 decks
- Dimir 6 decks
- Rakdos 2 decks
- Orzhov 2 decks
- Golgari 1 deck
- Abzan 1 deck
- Esper 1 deck
Gray Merchant of Asphodel price history
The Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander #142 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2026 | $3.82 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $3.82 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $3.84 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $4.12 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $4.17 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $3.97 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Gray Merchant of Asphodel
14 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.
Foundations Commander
- Normal
- $0.61
Full Art
The Zeta Set
- Normal
- —
Full Art
The Zeta Set
- Normal
- —
Full Art
The Zeta Set
- Normal
- —
Inverted
Secret Lair Countdown
- Foil
- $83.51
Inverted
Secret Lair Countdown
- Normal
- $10.25
- Foil
- $15.10
Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
- Normal
- $3.82
Starter Commander Decks
- Normal
- $2.25
Time Spiral Remastered
- Normal
- $8.12
- Foil
- $89.61
Inverted
- Normal
- $7.73
- Foil
- $10.32
- Normal
- $1.15
- Foil
- $3.31
The List
- Normal
- $1.01
Commander 2014
- Normal
- $1.18
Theros
- Normal
- $0.94
- Foil
- $6.98
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Gray Merchant of Asphodel. 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.
