Pact of Negation
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay 3. If you don't, you lose the game.
Combos with Pact of Negation
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.
- Venser, Shaper Savant Displacer Kitten Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2013-06-07
Although originally printed with a characteristic-defining ability that defined its color, this card now has a color indicator. This color indicator can't be affected by text-changing effects (such as the one created by Crystal Spray), although color-changing effects can still overwrite it.
- 2021-03-19
If Pact of Negation is countered or otherwise doesn't resolve (perhaps because its target became illegal), the delayed triggered ability that threatens you with a game loss won't trigger at the beginning of your next upkeep.
- 2021-03-19
If Pact of Negation resolves with a legal target but fails to counter that spell (most likely because that spell can't be countered), the delayed triggered ability will still trigger at the beginning of your next upkeep and you will have to pay. Or else.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Pact of Negation, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urza, Lord High Artificer | 1 | 5 | 0% |
| Veyran, Voice of Duality | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Blue 1 deck
- Izzet 1 deck
Every version of Pact of Negation
8 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.
Mystery Booster 2
- Normal
- $18.36
- Foil
- $115.82
Inverted
Tales of Middle-earth Commander
- Normal
- $83.72
- Foil
- $122.30
Time Spiral Remastered
- Normal
- $17.96
- Foil
- $44.89
The List
- Normal
- $18.89
Masters 25
- Normal
- $18.61
- Foil
- $41.57
Borderless
Amonkhet Invocations
- Foil
- $210.37
Modern Masters
- Normal
- $19.01
- Foil
- $42.00
Future Sight
- Normal
- $20.64
- Foil
- $178.18
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Pact of Negation — 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.