Heartless Act
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Choose one —
• Destroy target creature with no counters on it.
• Remove up to three counters from target creature.
Combos with Heartless Act
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.
- Archfiend of the Dross Fateful Handoff
- Target opponent loses the game at the beginning of their next upkeep
- Archfiend of the Dross Jon Irenicus, Shattered One
- Target opponent loses the game at the beginning of their next upkeep
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2020-04-17
If you choose the second mode for Heartless Act, you choose which counters to remove from the creature, no matter who controls the creature. You may choose counters of different kinds.
- 2020-04-17
If you choose the first mode and the creature gains a counter in response, you can't remove counters from it instead; the spell just doesn't resolve. Similarly, if you choose the second mode and the creature loses its counters in response, you can't destroy it instead.
- 2025-10-02
If you choose the second mode for Heartless Act, you choose which counters to remove from the creature, no matter who controls the creature. You may choose counters of different kinds.
- 2025-10-02
If you choose the first mode and the creature gains a counter in response, you can't remove counters from it instead; the spell just doesn't resolve. Similarly, if you choose the second mode and the creature loses its counters in response, you can't destroy it instead.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Heartless Act, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atraxa, Grand Unifier | 1 | 1 | — |
| Fire Lord Azula | 1 | 0 | — |
| Zaxara, the Exemplary | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Sultai 1 deck
- Grixis 1 deck
- Four-Color (no Red) 1 deck
Heartless Act price history
The Avatar: The Last Airbender #103 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 6, 2026 | $0.27 | $0.26 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.26 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.27 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.21 | $0.27 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.22 | $0.27 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.21 | $0.27 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.27 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Heartless Act
5 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.
- Normal
- $0.27
- Foil
- $0.26
The List
- Normal
- $0.16
- Normal
- $0.22
- Foil
- $0.36
Inverted
- Normal
- $0.91
- Foil
- $2.28
- Normal
- $0.17
- Foil
- $0.27
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Heartless Act. 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.
