Merchant of Venom
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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
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.
- Animation Module Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- 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
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.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dina, Essence Brewer | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Golgari 1 deck
Merchant of Venom price history
The Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #27 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Nov 9, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Nov 8, 2026 | $0.26 |
| Nov 7, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Nov 6, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Nov 5, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Nov 4, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Nov 3, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $0.26 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.31 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Normal
- $0.27
Extended Art
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Normal
- $0.39
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. 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.
