Loyal Retainers
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Sacrifice this creature: Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.
Combos with Loyal Retainers
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.
- Saffi Eriksdotter Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Jackdaw Savior Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite colorless mana
- Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite blinking
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite blinking
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero Goblin Bombardment Infinite
- Infinite blinking
- Infinite damage
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero Altar of Dementia Infinite
- Infinite blinking
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite mill
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite self-mill
- Sakashima of a Thousand Faces Moritte of the Frost Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Marvin, Murderous Mimic Sakashima of a Thousand Faces Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
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
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2013-09-20
If a turn has multiple combat phases, the ability can only be activated before the beginning of the declare attackers step of the first combat phase in that turn.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Loyal Retainers, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| T'Challa, the Black Panther | 2 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Selesnya 2 decks
Every version of Loyal Retainers
8 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.
Marvel Super Heroes Commander
- Normal
- $0.33
- Foil
- —
Extended Art
Marvel Super Heroes Commander
- Normal
- $1.10
- Normal
- $3.29
- Foil
- $3.54
Etched
- Etched
- $4.13
Promo
30th Anniversary Play Promos
- Foil
- $11.77
Borderless
Amonkhet Invocations
- Foil
- $28.91
Commander's Arsenal
- Foil
- $6.42
Portal Three Kingdoms
- Normal
- $38.73
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Loyal Retainers. 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.
