Living Death
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
Combos with Living Death
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.
- Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite blinking
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Viscera Seer Dualcaster Mage Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite scry 1
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite recursion of creature cards in your graveyard
- Eternal Witness Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite blinking
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Great Whale Archaeomancer Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite blinking for all players
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Palinchron Archaeomancer Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite blinking for all players
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Peregrine Drake Archaeomancer Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite blinking for all players
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Ashnod's Altar Basal Sliver Archaeomancer Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Ashnod's Altar Blood Vassal Archaeomancer Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
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.
- 2018-03-16
Only cards exiled by Living Death's first instruction are put onto the battlefield. If a replacement effect (such as that of Leyline of the Void) causes any of the sacrificed creatures to be exiled instead of put into a graveyard, those cards aren't returned to the battlefield.
- 2018-03-16
As Living Death resolves, all players exile their creature cards from graveyards at the same time. Then all players sacrifice all creatures they control at the same time. Then all players put all creatures they exiled onto the battlefield at the same time.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Living Death, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teval, the Balanced Scale | 4 | 0 | — |
| Syr Konrad, the Grim | 1 | 7 | 57.1% |
| The Mycotyrant | 1 | 2 | — |
| Mahadi, Emporium Master | 1 | 1 | — |
| Tsagan, Raider Warlord | 1 | 1 | — |
| Athreos, God of Passage | 1 | 0 | — |
| Felothar, Dawn of the Abzan | 1 | 0 | — |
| Glarb, Calamity's Augur | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Sultai 6 decks
- Mono-Black 2 decks
- Orzhov 2 decks
- Abzan 2 decks
- Golgari 1 deck
- Rakdos 1 deck
- Grixis 1 deck
- Mardu 1 deck
- Five-Color 1 deck
Living Death price history
The Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander #185 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $5.69 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $5.69 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $5.74 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $5.98 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $5.88 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $6.01 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $6.20 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $6.54 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $6.84 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $6.68 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $6.70 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $6.64 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $6.71 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $6.72 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $6.59 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $6.35 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $6.29 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $6.62 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $6.25 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $6.17 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $6.53 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $6.94 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $6.93 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $6.49 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $6.50 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $6.36 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $5.99 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $5.77 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Living Death
14 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.
- Normal
- $5.69
Borderless
Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
- Foil
- $14.62
Tales of Middle-earth Commander
- Normal
- $6.94
- Normal
- $5.64
- Foil
- $11.63
- Normal
- $5.06
- Normal
- $3.76
Masters 25
- Normal
- $4.36
- Foil
- $9.77
From the Vault: Annihilation
- Foil
- $7.71
- Normal
- $3.99
Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition
- Normal
- $3.32
Promo
Judge Gift Cards 2003
- Foil
- $274.91
Battle Royale Box Set
- Normal
- $5.82
- Normal
- $14.64
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Living Death. 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.
