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Karador, Ghost Chieftain

Legendary Creature — Centaur Spirit MV 8

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What it does

This spell costs 1 less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.

Once during each of your turns, you may cast a creature spell from your graveyard.

Combos with Karador, Ghost Chieftain

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

7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2020-11-10

    You must pay the costs to cast that spell. If it has an alternative cost, you may cast it for that cost instead.

  • 2020-11-10

    To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases (such as the commander tax), then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Karador). The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.

  • 2020-11-10

    If you cast one creature spell from your graveyard and then have a new Karador come under your control in the same turn, you may cast another creature spell from your graveyard that turn.

  • 2020-11-10

    You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions of the spell you cast from your graveyard.

  • 2020-11-10

    Once you begin to cast the spell, losing control of Karador won't affect the spell. You can finish casting it as normal.

  • 2020-11-10

    If a creature card is put into your graveyard during your main phase and the stack is empty, you have a chance to cast it before any player may attempt to remove that card from your graveyard.

  • 2020-11-10

    If multiple effects allow you to play a card from your graveyard, you must announce which permission you're using as you begin to play the card.

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

As a commander

Decks built with Karador, Ghost Chieftain in the command zone.

Decks led 1 1 published. Browse them →
Games played 0
Wins 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.

Published decks

Decklists players have published with Karador, Ghost Chieftain in the command zone, newest first. A deck that has been played carries the win rate it earned in real tracked games.

Karador, Ghost Chieftain price history

The Commander Masters #342 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$0.33▼ $0.01 (2.9%)
Low $0.31 · High $0.34Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Oct 6, 2026$0.33$0.44
Oct 5, 2026$0.32$0.44
Oct 2, 2026$0.31$0.44
Oct 1, 2026$0.32$0.44
Sep 29, 2026$0.33$0.44
Sep 28, 2026$0.34$0.44

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

Every version of Karador, Ghost Chieftain

11 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 Karador, Ghost Chieftain. 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.