Tortured Existence
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Combos with Tortured Existence
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.
- Kheru Goldkeeper Infinite
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Syr Konrad, the Grim Tainted Strike Infinite
- Each opponent loses the game
- Telekinetic Bonds Chromatic Orrery Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Imotekh the Stormlord Clock of Omens Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite tapped creature tokens
- Syr Konrad, the Grim K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Infinite
- Infinite damage
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Syr Konrad, the Grim Phyresis Infinite
- Each opponent loses the game
- Hashaton, Scarab's Fist Peregrine Drake Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite tapped creature tokens
- Phyrexian Altar Teval, the Balanced Scale Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite self-discard 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
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2004-10-04
You can’t return the same card you are discarding. This is because you pick the target before paying the costs.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Tortured Existence, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Syr Konrad, the Grim | 1 | 3 | — |
| Disa the Restless | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 1 deck
- Jund 1 deck
Every version of Tortured Existence
3 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.
Borderless
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $13.49
- Foil
- $15.31
The List
- Normal
- $3.49
Stronghold
- Normal
- $3.71
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Tortured Existence — 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.
