Merciless Executioner card art

Merciless Executioner

Creature — Orc Warrior MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

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

Combos with Merciless Executioner

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.

  • Burakos, Party Leader Haunted One Relic of Legends Retribution of the Ancients Infinite
    • Each opponent sacrifices all creatures they control
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite power for certain creatures until end of turn
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

One official ruling, as Wizards published it.

  • 2014-11-24

    If you control no other creatures as Merciless Executioner's ability resolves, you'll have to sacrifice Merciless Executioner.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Merciless Executioner, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
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
Sauron, Lord of the Rings 1 0 —
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Black 1 deck
  • Grixis 1 deck

Every version of Merciless Executioner

5 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 Merciless Executioner — 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.