Parasitic Impetus
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Rulings
7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2020-04-17
If you are the attacking creature's controller, you lose 2 life and gain 2 life. You won't lose the game if your life total is 0 in between these two events.
- 2020-04-17
Parasitic Impetus causes you to gain life, not the attacking creature's controller.
- 2023-06-30
If a creature you control has been goaded by multiple opponents, it must attack one of your opponents that hasn't goaded it, as that fulfills the maximum number of goad requirements. If a creature you control has been goaded by each of your opponents, the creature must attack an opponent (rather than a planeswalker or battle), but you choose which opponent it attacks.
- 2023-06-30
If the creature doesn't meet any of the above exceptions and can attack, it must attack a player other than the controller of the spell or ability that goaded it if able. If the creature can't attack any of those players but could otherwise attack, it must attack a planeswalker an opponent controls, a battle an opponent controls, or a player who goaded it.
- 2023-06-30
Attacking with a goaded creature doesn't cause it to stop being goaded. If there is an additional combat phase that turn, or if another player gains control of it before it stops being goaded, it must attack again if able.
- 2023-06-30
Being goaded isn't an ability the creature has. Once it's been goaded, it must attack as detailed above even if it loses all abilities.
- 2023-06-30
If, during a player's declare attackers step, a creature that player controls that's been goaded is tapped, is affected by a spell or ability that says it can't attack, or hasn't been under that player's control continuously since the turn began (and doesn't have haste), then it doesn't attack. If there's a cost associated with having a creature attack a player, its controller isn't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack that player.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Parasitic Impetus, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jirina Kudro | 1 | 0 | — |
| Killian, Decisive Mentor | 1 | 0 | — |
| Otrimi, the Ever-Playful | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Sultai 1 deck
- Orzhov 1 deck
- Mardu 1 deck
Parasitic Impetus price history
The Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #222 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Nov 8, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Nov 7, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Nov 6, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Nov 5, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $0.26 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $0.26 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.27 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Parasitic Impetus
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
- —
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Normal
- $0.33
- Normal
- $0.17
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Normal
- $0.21
- Foil
- $0.36
- Normal
- $0.35
- Normal
- $0.18
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Parasitic Impetus. 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.
