Nine Lives
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Hexproof
If a source would deal damage to you, prevent that damage and put an incarnation counter on this enchantment.
When there are nine or more incarnation counters on this enchantment, exile it.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.
Combos with Nine Lives
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.
- Solemnity Infinite
- Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you
- Lock
- Fractured Identity Patrician's Scorn Infinite
- Each opponent loses the game
- Fractured Identity Angel's Grace Austere Command Infinite
- Each opponent loses the game
- Zedruu the Greathearted Shadowspear
- Target opponent loses the game
- Shadowspear Donate
- Target opponent loses the game
- Shadowspear Harmless Offering
- Target opponent loses the game
- Zedruu the Greathearted Austere Command
- Target opponent loses the game
- Zedruu the Greathearted Cleansing Nova
- Target opponent loses the game
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2020-06-23
If more than one source deals damage to you at once, prevent the damage from each of them and put that many incarnation counters on Nine Lives, even if this causes more than nine incarnation counters to be on Nine Lives. Leave it to cats to abuse loopholes.
- 2020-06-23
Once the first triggered ability is on the stack, it won't trigger again, even if more damage is prevented and more incarnation counters are put onto it.
- 2020-06-23
If you counter the first triggered ability or otherwise remove it from the stack, it will just trigger again immediately if Nine Lives still has nine or more incarnation counters on it.
- 2020-06-23
The last ability of Nine Lives triggers no matter how it leaves the battlefield.
- 2020-06-23
If damage that a source would deal to you can't be prevented, you still put an incarnation counter on Nine Lives.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Nine Lives, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iroh, Tea Master | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Boros 1 deck
Nine Lives price history
The Core Set 2021 #28 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.65 | $0.84 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $0.65 | $0.84 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $0.67 | $0.84 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $0.66 | $0.84 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $0.67 | $0.84 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $0.68 | $0.84 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.67 | $0.84 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.66 | $0.84 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.65 | $0.84 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.64 | $0.84 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.70 | $0.84 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $0.69 | $0.84 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.70 | $0.84 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.68 | $0.84 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.67 | $0.84 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Nine Lives
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.
Inverted
Marvel Universe
- Normal
- $2.61
- Foil
- $6.93
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Foil
- $19.01
- Normal
- $0.65
- Foil
- $0.84
Promo
Core Set 2021 Promos
- Normal
- $1.53
- Foil
- $3.00
Promo
Core Set 2021 Promos
- Foil
- $3.40
Extended Art
- Normal
- $1.38
- Foil
- $2.09
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Nine Lives. 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.
