Nethroi, Apex of Death
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Mutate 4G/W (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)
Deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever this creature mutates, return any number of target creature cards with total power 10 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Combos with Nethroi, Apex of Death
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.
- Phyrexian Altar Mitotic Slime Whitemane Lion Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite recursion of some creature cards in your graveyard
- Infinite creature tokens
- Pitiless Plunderer Eternal Witness Mitotic Slime Viscera Seer Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite scry 1
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite Treasure tokens
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2020-04-17
Nethroi's triggered ability can return any combination of creatures whose powers total 10 or less. For example, it could target ten 1/1 creature cards, two 5/5 creature cards, and so on. Regardless of what other creature cards you choose as targets, you can also choose any number of creature cards with power 0 as targets.
- 2020-04-17
If the power of the target creature cards change while in your graveyard, most likely because one has a characteristic-defining ability that defines a * in its power, the total power of the creatures may become greater than 10. If this happens, the entire selection of targets is illegal and nothing is returned to the battlefield.
- 2020-04-17
Use the power of the creature cards as they exist in your graveyard to determine whether they can be the targets of Nethroi's triggered ability. For example, a 0/0 creature card that will enter the battlefield as a copy of a 15/15 creature can be returned, as can five 0/0 creature cards that will each enter the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on them.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
As a commander
Decks built with Nethroi, Apex of Death in the command zone.
Published decks
Decklists players have published with Nethroi, Apex of Death in the command zone, newest first. A deck that has been played carries the win rate it earned in real tracked games.
- Rated deck 0 games —
- Death returns 0 games —
Nethroi, Apex of Death price history
The Dominaria United Commander #163 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2026 | $2.53 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $2.53 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $2.55 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $2.54 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $2.55 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $2.54 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $2.51 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $2.53 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $2.59 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $2.32 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $2.36 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $2.33 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $2.40 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $2.51 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Nethroi, Apex of Death
6 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.
- Normal
- $2.53
- Normal
- $2.24
- Foil
- $2.96
Promo
Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos
- Normal
- $5.33
- Foil
- $3.21
Promo
Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos
- Foil
- $8.90
Showcase
- Normal
- $6.01
- Foil
- $15.72
Inverted
- Normal
- $31.27
- Foil
- $51.22
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Nethroi, Apex of Death. 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.
