Killian, Ink Duelist card art

Killian, Ink Duelist

Legendary Creature — Human Warlock MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

Lifelink

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Spells you cast that target a creature cost 2 less to cast.

Combos with Killian, Ink Duelist

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.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2021-04-16

    Killian can reduce alternative costs. For example, if you choose to pay the 1 alternative cost for Baleful Mastery while targeting a creature, that cost would be reduced to .

  • 2021-04-16

    Killian, Ink Duelist can't reduce the colored mana requirement of a spell's mana cost.

  • 2021-04-16

    If a spell has additional costs, apply those increases before applying cost reductions.

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

As a commander

Decks built with Killian, Ink Duelist in the command zone.

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

Killian, Ink Duelist price history

The Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #317 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$0.30▲ $0.02 (7.1%)
Low $0.28 · High $0.32Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foil
Oct 3, 2026$0.30
Oct 2, 2026$0.30
Oct 1, 2026$0.31
Sep 30, 2026$0.32
Sep 29, 2026$0.31
Sep 28, 2026$0.28

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

Every version of Killian, Ink Duelist

2 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 Killian, Ink Duelist. 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.