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King of the Oathbreakers

Legendary Creature — Spirit Noble MV 4

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

Flying

Whenever King of the Oathbreakers or another Spirit you control becomes the target of a spell, it phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until your next turn.)

Whenever King of the Oathbreakers or another Spirit you control phases in, create a tapped 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Rulings

10 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2023-06-16

    Permanents phase back in during their controller's untap step, immediately before that player untaps their permanents. Creatures that phase in this way are able to attack and pay a cost of T during that turn. If a permanent had counters on it when it phased out, it will have those counters when it phases back in.

  • 2023-06-16

    A phased-out token will phase in at the beginning of its controller's untap step just like a nontoken permanent would.

  • 2023-06-16

    If a spell an opponent controls targets multiple Spirits you control, King of the Oathbreakers's triggered ability will trigger once for each of those Spirits.

  • 2023-06-16

    If King of the Oathbreakers phases in at the same time as one or more other Spirits you control, King of the Oathbreakers's last ability will trigger for each of them.

  • 2023-06-16

    Any continuous effects with a "for as long as" duration, such as that of Rangers of Ithilien, ignore phased-out objects. If ignoring those objects causes the effect's conditions to no longer be met, the duration will expire.

  • 2023-06-16

    An attacking or blocking creature that phases out is removed from combat.

  • 2023-06-16

    Phasing out doesn't cause any "leaves the battlefield" abilities to trigger. Similarly, phasing in won't cause any "enters the battlefield" abilities to trigger.

  • 2023-06-16

    As a creature is phased out, Auras and Equipment attached to it also phase out at the same time. Those Auras and Equipment will phase in at the same time that creature does, and they'll phase in still attached to that creature.

  • 2023-06-16

    Choices made for permanents as they entered the battlefield are remembered even after they phase in.

  • 2023-06-16

    Phased-out permanents are treated as though they don't exist. They can't be the target of spells or abilities, their static abilities have no effect on the game, their triggered abilities can't trigger, they can't attack or block, and so on.

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

As a commander

Decks built with King of the Oathbreakers in the command zone.

Decks led 1
Games played 3
Wins 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.

Every version of King of the Oathbreakers

5 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 King of the Oathbreakers — 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.