Inevitable Defeat
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
This spell can't be countered.
Exile target nonland permanent. Its controller loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.
Rulings
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2025-04-04
If the target permanent is an illegal target as Inevitable Defeat tries to resolve, it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. No player will gain or lose life.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Inevitable Defeat, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tsagan, Raider Warlord | 1 | 1 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mardu 1 deck
Every version of Inevitable Defeat
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.

- Normal
- $0.78
- Foil
- $0.77

Promo
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Promos
- Normal
- $0.45
- Foil
- $0.37

Promo
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Promos
- Foil
- $1.67

Showcase
- Normal
- $0.50
- Foil
- $1.57
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Inevitable Defeat. 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.