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Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs

Legendary Creature — Ogre Warrior MV 5

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

Whenever a creature an opponent controls attacks, if you're the defending player, create a 3/3 red Ogre creature token unless that creature's controller pays 3.

Rulings

6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2010-03-01

    As the ability resolves, you can't put the Ogre token onto the battlefield without explicitly giving the attacking player the option to pay 3, even if the attacking player has forgotten about this ability.

  • 2010-03-01

    If you're the defending player, Kazuul's ability triggers once for each creature that attacks, not just once per combat. The attacking player chooses whether to pay 3 or let you have an Ogre token each time one of those abilities resolves.

  • 2010-03-01

    In a multiplayer game, the ability checks whether you're the defending player for each individual attacking creature. For example, if one creature attacks you and two creatures attack another player, Kazuul's ability triggers just once.

  • 2010-03-01

    If an attacking creature has a "Whenever this creature attacks" ability, that ability is put on the stack first, then Kazuul's ability is put on the stack. Although Kazuul's ability will resolve first, and potentially create an Ogre token, any target of the other ability will already have been chosen at this point, and thus could not have been the new Ogre token.

  • 2010-03-01

    The ability triggers and resolves during the declare attackers step. If you put an Ogre token onto the battlefield as a result, you may block with it during that combat phase.

  • 2023-07-28

    You're the defending player if a creature is attacking you, a planeswalker you control, or a battle you protect.

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

As a commander

Decks built with Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs in the command zone.

Decks led 1
Games played 0
Wins 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 4
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — 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
Smaug the Magnificent 2 0 —
Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar 1 0 —
Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Red 2 decks
  • Boros 1 deck

Every version of Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs

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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs — 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.