Tree of Perdition card art

Tree of Perdition

Creature — Plant MV 4

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

Defender

T: Exchange target opponent's life total with this creature's toughness.

Combos with Tree of Perdition

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.

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

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2016-07-13

    Any toughness-modifying effects, counters, Auras, or Equipment will apply after its toughness is set to the player's former life total. For example, say Tree of Perdition is equipped with Cultist's Staff (which makes it 2/15) and the player's life total is 7. After the exchange, Tree of Perdition would be a 2/9 creature (its toughness became 7, which was then modified by Cultist's Staff) and the player's life total would be 15.

  • 2016-07-13

    If Tree of Perdition isn't on the battlefield when the ability resolves, the exchange can't happen and the ability will have no effect. Notably, activating the ability and giving Tree of Perdition -13/-13 in response won't cause your opponent to lose the game.

  • 2016-07-13

    When the ability resolves, Tree of Perdition's toughness becomes the targeted opponent's former life total and that player gains or loses an amount of life necessary so that their life total equals Tree of Perdition's former toughness. Other effects that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Tree of Perdition, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 11
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Colors it shows up in

  • Jund 5 decks
  • Mono-Black 2 decks
  • Abzan 2 decks
  • Dimir 1 deck

Tree of Perdition price history

The Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander #49 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$2.82▲ $0.19 (7.2%)
Low $2.43 · High $3.12Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foil
Oct 27, 2026$2.82
Oct 26, 2026$2.82
Oct 25, 2026$2.81
Oct 24, 2026$2.86
Oct 23, 2026$2.64
Oct 22, 2026$2.51
Oct 21, 2026$2.52
Oct 20, 2026$2.65
Oct 19, 2026$2.67
Oct 18, 2026$2.62
Oct 17, 2026$2.67
Oct 16, 2026$2.69
Oct 15, 2026$2.62
Oct 14, 2026$2.45
Oct 13, 2026$2.55
Oct 12, 2026$2.69
Oct 11, 2026$2.90
Oct 10, 2026$3.12
Oct 9, 2026$2.94
Oct 8, 2026$2.83
Oct 7, 2026$2.77
Oct 6, 2026$2.72
Oct 5, 2026$2.70
Oct 4, 2026$2.64
Oct 3, 2026$2.56
Oct 2, 2026$2.43
Oct 1, 2026$2.55
Sep 30, 2026$2.66
Sep 29, 2026$2.74
Sep 28, 2026$2.63

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Tree of Perdition

5 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.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Tree of Perdition. 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.