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Pain 101

Instant MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

Until end of turn, target creature gains deathtouch and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Combos with Pain 101

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.

  • Ashnod's Altar Dualcaster Mage Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
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Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

One official ruling, as Wizards published it.

  • 2026-01-27

    If the target creature is a token, the granted ability will still trigger when it dies, but you won't return the token to the battlefield.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Pain 101, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Esper 1 deck

Every version of Pain 101

1 printing, 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.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Pain 101. 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.