Grim Captain's Call
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Return a Pirate card from your graveyard to your hand, then do the same for Vampire, Dinosaur, and Merfolk.
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2017-09-29
If you don’t have a card in your graveyard of one of the listed creature types, you just continue to the next listed type.
- 2017-09-29
If a card in your graveyard has more than one of these types (such as a Dinosaur that’s a Vampire Dinosaur due to Arcane Adaptation’s effect), you may choose to return it for one of its types and return another card of the other type.
- 2017-09-29
Grim Captain’s Call doesn’t target the cards to return. You choose them while it’s resolving. No players may take actions between the time you make each choice and the time you return each card to your hand.
- 2018-01-19
If an effect refers to a “[subtype] spell” or “[subtype] card,” it refers only to a spell or card that has that subtype. For example, March of the Drowned is a card that benefits Pirates and features Pirates in its illustration, but it isn’t a Pirate card.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Grim Captain's Call, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admiral Brass, Unsinkable | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Grixis 1 deck
Grim Captain's Call price history
The Ixalan #108 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 27, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.52 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.52 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.53 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $0.27 | $0.53 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.26 | $0.53 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.53 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Grim Captain's Call
1 printing, 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.
- Normal
- $0.25
- Foil
- $0.52
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Grim Captain's Call. 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.
