Havengul Lich
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
1: You may cast target creature card in a graveyard this turn. When you cast it this turn, this creature gains all activated abilities of that card until end of turn.
Combos with Havengul Lich
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.
- Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Ashnod's Altar Phyrexian Walker Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Phyrexian Altar Phyrexian Walker Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Krark-Clan Ironworks Phyrexian Walker Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Thermopod Phyrexian Walker Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Ashnod's Altar Myr Moonvessel Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Phyrexian Altar Myr Moonvessel Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Krark-Clan Ironworks Myr Moonvessel Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
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
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2011-01-22
Havengul Lich’s activated ability creates a delayed triggered ability that triggers when you cast the creature card. This triggered ability will go on the stack on top of the creature spell and will resolve before the creature spell will.
- 2011-01-22
If you don’t cast the creature card that turn, Havengul Lich won’t gain any of its abilities.
- 2013-04-15
Havengul Lich’s ability changes the zone you are permitted to cast the card from, not the times you are permitted to cast it. You can cast a creature card that has been targeted by Havengul Lich from the graveyard, but unless it has flash, you can only do so if it’s your main phase, the stack is empty, and you have priority.
- 2016-06-08
Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.
- 2019-10-04
Havengul Lich gains the activated abilities of the card as it existed in the graveyard while that card is still a spell on the stack.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Havengul Lich, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gisa and Geralf | 5 | 0 | — |
| Temmet, Naktamun's Will | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Dimir 5 decks
- Esper 1 deck
Havengul Lich price history
The Commander 2017 #173 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 27, 2026 | $0.68 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $0.68 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $0.70 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.69 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.68 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Havengul Lich
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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Secret Lair Drop
- Foil
- $1.55
- Normal
- $0.67
- Normal
- $0.68
- Normal
- $5.31
- Foil
- $14.47
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Havengul Lich. 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.
