Pontiff of Blight
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Other creatures you control have extort. (If a creature has multiple instances of extort, each triggers separately.)
Combos with Pontiff of Blight
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.
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Leshrac's Sigil Infinite
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Mourning Helm of Awakening Infinite
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite storm count
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Gravecrawler Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Gravecrawler Viscera Seer Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite scry 1
- Infinite storm count
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Gravecrawler Carrion Feeder Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Gravecrawler Altar of Dementia Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite mill
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite self-mill
- Infinite storm count
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-01-12
The amount of life you gain from extort is based on the total amount of life lost, not necessarily the number of opponents you have. For example, if your opponent's life total can't change (perhaps because that player controls Platinum Emperion), you won't gain any life.
- 2024-01-12
The extort ability doesn't target any player.
- 2024-01-12
You may pay W/B a maximum of one time for each extort triggered ability. You decide whether to pay when the ability resolves.
- 2024-01-12
The extort ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. The ability resolves even if that spell is countered.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Pontiff of Blight, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prosper, Tome-Bound | 1 | 0 | — |
| The Kingpin of Crime | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Rakdos 1 deck
- Orzhov 1 deck
Pontiff of Blight price history
The Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate #768 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 | $0.37 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $0.37 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $0.36 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $0.35 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.36 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.35 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.36 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.35 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Pontiff of Blight
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.
Secret Lair Drop
- Foil
- $11.00
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Normal
- $0.37
- Normal
- $0.35
RNA Guild Kit
- Normal
- $0.33
- Normal
- $0.36
- Normal
- $0.30
- Foil
- $3.34
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Pontiff of Blight. 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.
