Staff of the Death Magus
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Combos with Staff of the Death Magus
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.
- Acererak the Archlich Carnival of Souls Urza's Incubator Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite Treasure tokens
- Near-infinite colored mana
- Near-infinite creature tokens
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Near-infinite ventures into the dungeon
- Near-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.
- 2014-07-18
Most nonbasic lands don’t have basic land types, even if they produce colored mana. For example, Caves of Koilos is neither a Plains nor a Swamp. Having one enter the battlefield under your control won’t cause Staff of the Sun Magus’s ability to trigger.
- 2014-07-18
Each of these artifacts cares about any land with the appropriate basic land type. For example, Staff of the Sun Magus’s ability triggers when any land with the subtype Plains enters the battlefield under your control, not just lands named Plains.
- 2014-07-18
If you cast a copy of a card that’s a certain color, the appropriate Staff’s ability will trigger. However, if you copy a spell on the stack without casting that copy, it will not.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Staff of the Death Magus, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sahir, Visitor in Darkness | 1 | 0 | — |
| Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 2 decks
Every version of Staff of the Death Magus
2 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.
Magic 2015
- Normal
- $0.41
- Foil
- $1.53
Magic 2014
- Normal
- $0.25
- Foil
- $1.99
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Staff of the Death Magus — 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.
