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Tithe Taker

Creature — Human Soldier MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

During your turn, spells your opponents cast cost 1 more to cast and abilities your opponents activate cost 1 more to activate unless they're mana abilities.

Afterlife 1 (When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.)

Combos with Tithe Taker

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.

  • Nim Deathmantle Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Lethal Vapors Teferi's Protection Infinite
    • Skip all your future turns, causing your opponents to eventually draw from an empty library and lose the game
    • You have protection from everything
    • Your life total can't change
    • Lock
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Ashnod's Altar Kenrith, the Returned King Prismite Biomancer's Familiar Infinite
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite card draw for any number of players
    • Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
    • Infinite draw triggers for any number of opponents
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Ashnod's Altar Kenrith, the Returned King Prismite Training Grounds Infinite
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite card draw for any number of players
    • Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
    • Infinite draw triggers for any number of opponents
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2019-01-25

    Because blockers are chosen all at once, you can't block with a creature with afterlife, wait for it to die, then block with the resulting Spirit tokens.

  • 2019-01-25

    Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keyword abilities are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text. An activated mana ability is one that produces mana as it resolves, not one that costs mana to activate. Triggered abilities (starting with "when," "whenever," or "at") are unaffected by Tithe Taker.

  • 2019-01-25

    An opponent's activated ability that costs no mana to activate will cost 1 plus its non-mana costs during your turn.

  • 2019-01-25

    To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases (such as that of Tithe Taker's effect), then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Tithe Taker, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — 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
Caesar, Legion's Emperor 1 0 —
Isshin, Two Heavens as One 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mardu 2 decks

Every version of Tithe Taker

4 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.

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