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
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.
- 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 | 2 | 0 | — |
| Syr Konrad, the Grim | 1 | 2 | — |
| Mahadi, Emporium Master | 1 | 1 | — |
| The Mycotyrant | 1 | 1 | — |
| Tsagan, Raider Warlord | 1 | 1 | — |
| Athreos, God of Passage | 1 | 0 | — |
| Felothar, Dawn of the Abzan | 1 | 0 | — |
| Gollum, Riddle Master | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Sultai 3 decks
- Mono-Black 2 decks
- Golgari 1 deck
- Rakdos 1 deck
- Grixis 1 deck
- Orzhov 1 deck
- Abzan 1 deck
- Mardu 1 deck
- Five-Color 1 deck
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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander
- Normal
- $4.24
Borderless
Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
- Foil
- $12.83
Tales of Middle-earth Commander
- Normal
- $6.10
- Normal
- $5.09
- Foil
- $10.63
The List
- Normal
- $4.01
Commander Anthology Volume II
- Normal
- $3.24
Masters 25
- Normal
- $3.03
- Foil
- $8.84
From the Vault: Annihilation
- Foil
- $6.60
Commander 2011
- Normal
- $3.33
Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition
- Normal
- $3.01
Promo
Judge Gift Cards 2003
- Foil
- $268.11
Battle Royale Box Set
- Normal
- $5.61
Tempest
- Normal
- $12.52
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 — 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.