The Golden Throne
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Arcane Life-support — If you would lose the game, instead exile The Golden Throne and your life total becomes 1.
A Thousand Souls Die Every Day — T, Sacrifice a creature: Add three mana in any combination of colors.
Combos with The Golden Throne
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.
- Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence Volcano Hellion Infinite
- Infinite damage to one opponent
- Final Fortune Isochron Scepter Prototype Portal Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Trazyn the Infinite Gravecrawler Intruder Alarm Infinite
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite untap of creatures
- Derevi, Empyrial Tactician Genesis Chamber Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Trazyn the Infinite Gravecrawler Thornbite Staff Infinite
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Trazyn the Infinite Gravecrawler Soliton Infinite
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Derevi, Empyrial Tactician Genesis Chamber Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Derevi, Empyrial Tactician Genesis Chamber Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2022-10-07
If a spell or ability both destroys The Golden Throne and deals enough damage to you to reduce your life total to zero or less, you will still lose the game. This is because the state-based action that causes a player to lose the game due to having zero or less life won't be performed until after the spell or ability finishes resolving. At that point, The Golden Throne is no longer on the battlefield to apply its replacement effect.
- 2022-10-07
In a Two-Headed Giant game, The Golden Throne's ability set's the team's life total to 1, but only you gain or lose life.
- 2022-10-07
If an effect says that you can't lose the game, The Golden Throne's first ability doesn't apply.
- 2022-10-07
If an effect states that an opponent wins the game, The Golden Throne's effect doesn't apply.
- 2022-10-07
For your life total to become 1, you will gain or lose the appropriate amount of life. For example, if your life total is -4 when The Golden Throne's ability applies, it will cause you to gain 5 life. Alternatively, if your life total is 20 when it applies (perhaps because you tried to draw a card from an empty library), you will lose 19 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly. Notably, this means that if you can't gain life or the life gain event is modified by another replacement effect, you might still have 0 or less life and still lose the game.
- 2022-10-07
The Golden Throne's effect applies any time you would lose the game while it is on the battlefield, even if you're not losing due to your life total being 0 or less. If you would have lost the game because you tried to draw from an empty library, your life total becomes 1 and you won't lose again until you try to draw again and still can't do so. If you would have lost the game due to having ten or more poison counters, your life total becomes 1, but you will lose the game immediately afterward because you still have ten or more poison counters.
- 2022-10-07
The Golden Throne's effect does nothing if you concede the game. A player who concedes leaves the game.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes The Golden Throne, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athreos, God of Passage | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Orzhov 1 deck
Every version of The Golden Throne
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.
- Normal
- $11.02
- Foil
- $25.79
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for The Golden Throne — 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.
