Mortality Spear
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
This spell costs 2 less to cast if you gained life this turn.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
Rulings
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2021-04-16
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Mortality Spear). Mortality Spear's mana value is always 4, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Mortality Spear, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dina, Essence Brewer | 1 | 0 | — |
| Savra, Queen of the Golgari | 1 | 0 | — |
| Ygra, Eater of All | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Golgari 3 decks
Every version of Mortality Spear
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.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Normal
- $0.33

- Normal
- $0.23
- Foil
- $0.35

Inverted
- Normal
- $0.48
- Foil
- $0.82
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Mortality Spear. 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.