Hell's Caretaker card art

Hell's Caretaker

Creature — Horror MV 4

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What it does

T, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your upkeep.

Combos with Hell's Caretaker

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.

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

2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2018-03-16

    The upkeep step is before the draw step, after the untap step. Because the turn has already begun, creatures put onto the battlefield during your upkeep won't be able to attack or pay a T cost this turn.

  • 2018-03-16

    Hell's Caretaker can be the creature sacrificed to activate its ability, but it can't be the target of its own ability.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Hell's Caretaker, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Karador, Ghost Chieftain 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Abzan 1 deck

Hell's Caretaker price history

The Masters 25 #92 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$1.71▲ $0.02 (1.2%)
Low $1.66 · High $1.71Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Oct 6, 2026$1.71$5.76
Oct 5, 2026$1.71$5.76
Oct 1, 2026$1.66$5.76
Sep 29, 2026$1.66$5.72
Sep 28, 2026$1.69$5.72

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Hell's Caretaker

7 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.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Hell's Caretaker. 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.