Merchant of Venom card art

Merchant of Venom

Creature — Cat Warlock MV 4

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

Menace

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Combos with Merchant of Venom

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.

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    • Infinite artifact tokens
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
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Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

One official ruling, as Wizards published it.

  • 2026-03-20

    When Merchant of Venom's second ability resolves, first the player whose turn it is chooses which creature they're going to sacrifice, then each other player in turn order does the same. Players will know the choices of previous players when making their choices. Then all chosen creatures are sacrificed by their controllers simultaneously.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Merchant of Venom, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Dina, Essence Brewer 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Golgari 1 deck

Every version of Merchant of Venom

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 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 Merchant of Venom — 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.