Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Flying, vigilance
Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on Mirko.
At the beginning of your end step, you may return target creature card with power less than Mirko's from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If it would die, exile it instead.)
Combos with Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
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.
- Coretapper Magistrate's Scepter Power Conduit Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Coretapper Magistrate's Scepter Hex Parasite Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-02-02
An ability that triggers "whenever you surveil" triggers after you're done surveilling, even if you have fewer cards in your library than the number of cards you're instructed to surveil. It even triggers if you have no cards in your library.
- 2024-02-02
Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.
- 2024-02-02
Finality counters work on any permanent, not only creatures. If a permanent with a finality counter on it would go to a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead.
- 2024-02-02
Finality counters don't stop permanents from going to zones other than the graveyard from the battlefield. For example, if a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into its owner's hand from the battlefield, it does so normally.
- 2024-02-02
Finality counters aren't keyword counters, and a finality counter doesn't give any abilities to the permanent it's on. If that permanent loses its abilities and then would go to a graveyard, it will still be exiled instead.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
As a commander
Decks built with Mirko, Obsessive Theorist in the command zone.
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist price history
The Murders at Karlov Manor Commander #2 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Foil |
|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.38 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.38 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.39 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.38 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
3 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.
Murders at Karlov Manor Commander
- Foil
- $0.38
Extended Art
Murders at Karlov Manor Commander
- Normal
- $1.56
- Foil
- $0.60
Etched
Murders at Karlov Manor Commander
- Etched
- $0.33
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Mirko, Obsessive Theorist. 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.
