Ketramose, the New Dawn card art

Ketramose, the New Dawn

Legendary Creature — God MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

Menace, lifelink, indestructible

Ketramose can't attack or block unless there are seven or more cards in exile.

Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from graveyards and/or the battlefield during your turn, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

Combos with Ketramose, the New Dawn

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.

  • Containment Construct Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Infinite
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Near-infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite rummaging
    • Near-infinite lifegain
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Necropotence Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Infinite
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Near-infinite lifegain
    • Near-infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Exile your library
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Currency Converter Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Infinite
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Near-infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite rummaging
    • Near-infinite lifegain
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Toluz, Clever Conductor Queza, Augur of Agonies Infinite
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Near-infinite lifeloss
    • Near-infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Exile your library
    • Infinite rummaging
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Toluz, Clever Conductor Feast of Sanity Infinite
    • Near-infinite damage
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Near-infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Exile your library
    • Infinite rummaging
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Necropotence Feast of Sanity Infinite
    • Near-infinite damage
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Near-infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Exile your library
    • Infinite rummaging
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Lich's Mastery Skirge Familiar Infinite
    • Exile your library
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite rummaging
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Near-infinite black mana
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Containment Construct Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Putrid Imp Infinite
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Near-infinite lifegain
    • Near-infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Exile your library with the ability to play the exiled cards until end of turn
    • Infinite rummaging
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

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

2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2025-02-07

    Once Ketramose has been declared as an attacker or blocker, it will continue to attack or block that combat even if the number of cards in exile falls below seven.

  • 2025-02-07

    The ability that prevents Ketramose from attacking or blocking counts the total number of cards in exile, regardless of who owns them or how they were exiled.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Ketramose, the New Dawn, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 14
Win rate 28.6%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Fire Lord Zuko 2 14 28.6%

Colors it shows up in

  • Mardu 2 decks

Every version of Ketramose, the New Dawn

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 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 Ketramose, the New Dawn — 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.