Helm of the Host
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste.
Equip 5
Combos with Helm of the Host
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Timestream Navigator Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Scourge of the Throne Infinite
- Infinite combat phases
- Infinite creature tokens with haste
- Infinite creature ETB
- Port Razer Infinite
- Infinite combat damage
- Infinite combat phases
- Infinite creature tokens with haste
- Infinite damage
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite untap of creatures you control
- Combat Celebrant Infinite
- Infinite combat phases
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite tapped creature tokens
- Infinite untap of creatures you control
- Enduring Scalelord Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature token with haste
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Breath of Fury Infinite
- Infinite combat damage
- Infinite combat phases
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite untap of creatures you control
- Godo, Bandit Warlord Infinite
- Infinite combat phases
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Put all Equipment cards from your library onto the battlefield
- Aurelia, the Warleader Infinite
- Infinite combat phases
- Infinite creature tokens with haste
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite untap of creatures you 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
8 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2018-04-27
Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the chosen creature will also work.
- 2018-04-27
If the equipped creature leaves the battlefield before the triggered ability of Helm of the Host resolves, or if there is no equipped creature, no token is created. However, if Helm of the Host leaves the battlefield while its triggered ability is on the stack, a token will be created of the creature it last equipped. If that creature has also left the battlefield, its last known information is used to determine what the token looks like.
- 2018-04-27
If the copied creature has X in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
- 2018-04-27
The token isn't legendary, and this exception is copiable. If something else copies the token later, that copy also won't be legendary. If you control two or more permanents with the same name but only one is legendary, the "legend rule" doesn't apply.
- 2018-04-27
If the copied creature is copying something else (for example, if the copied creature is a Clone), then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.
- 2018-04-27
The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.
- 2018-04-27
The token gains haste indefinitely, and this effect isn't copiable. If something else copies the token later, that copy won't have haste.
- 2018-04-27
If the copied creature is a token, the token that's created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created that token.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Helm of the Host, whatever its commander.
Most played under
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| Omnath, Locus of Mana | 1 | 0 | — |
| T'Challa, the Black Panther | 1 | 0 | — |
| Tivit, Seller of Secrets | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Izzet 2 decks
- Mono-Black 1 deck
- Rakdos 1 deck
- Mono-Green 1 deck
- Sultai 1 deck
- Selesnya 1 deck
- Boros 1 deck
- Esper 1 deck
Every version of Helm of the Host
10 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.
Marvel Super Heroes Commander
- Normal
- $6.10
- Foil
- —
Extended Art
Marvel Super Heroes Commander
- Normal
- $7.79
- Normal
- $7.95
The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts
- Normal
- $8.99
- Foil
- $19.46
The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts
- Normal
- $15.90
- Foil
- $29.45
The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts
- Foil
- $637.00
The List
- Normal
- $9.50
Dominaria
- Normal
- $8.05
- Foil
- $19.18
Promo
Dominaria Promos
- Normal
- $12.05
- Foil
- $19.22
Promo
Dominaria Promos
- Foil
- $34.16
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Helm of the Host — a name search across every version, for 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.