Illusory Ambusher
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, draw that many cards.
Combos with Illusory Ambusher
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.
- Feast of Sanity Infinite
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite looting
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- The Locust God Terror of the Peaks Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite creature tokens with haste
- Near-infinite creature ETB
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2017-11-17
Creatures may be dealt damage greater than their toughness. For example, if a source deals 5 damage to Illusory Ambusher, you'll draw five cards.
- 2017-11-17
If Illusory Ambusher blocks a creature with trample, that creature's controller can assign any amount of damage from 1 to that creature's power to Illusory Ambusher. Excess damage doesn't have to be assigned to the defending player.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Illusory Ambusher, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind | 1 | 0 | — |
| Zinnia, Valley's Voice | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Izzet 1 deck
- Jeskai 1 deck
Illusory Ambusher price history
The Commander 2020 #113 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 | $0.16 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.20 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Illusory Ambusher
6 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
- $0.22
- Normal
- $0.14
Game Night: Free-for-All
- Normal
- $0.17
- Normal
- $0.16
- Normal
- $0.23
- Foil
- $0.63
- Normal
- $0.15
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Illusory Ambusher. 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.
