Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
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What it does
When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent.
Indestructible
Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.)
When Ulamog is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.
Combos with Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
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.
- Inverter of Truth Thassa's Oracle Infinite
- Exile your library and graveyard
- Win the game
- Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion Hellkite Charger Infinite
- Infinite damage
- Infinite rummaging
- Syr Konrad, the Grim Morality Shift Infinite
- Near-infinite damage
- Atla Palani, Nest Tender Mirror Entity Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Lagomos, Hand of Hatred Mind Over Matter Infinite
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Captain Sisay Mind Over Matter Infinite
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Verdant Succession Ashnod's Altar Painter's Servant Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Deathrender Heirloom Blade Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite colorless mana
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
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2010-06-15
Annihilator abilities trigger and resolve during the declare attackers step. The defending player chooses and sacrifices the required number of permanents before they declare blockers. Any creatures sacrificed this way won't be able to block.
- 2010-06-15
If a creature with annihilator is attacking a planeswalker, and the defending player chooses to sacrifice that planeswalker, the attacking creature continues to attack. It may be blocked. If it isn't blocked, it simply won't deal combat damage to anything.
- 2013-07-01
Lethal damage and effects that say "destroy" won't cause a creature with indestructible to be put into the graveyard. However, a creature with indestructible can be put into the graveyard for a number of reasons. The most likely reasons are if it's sacrificed, if it's legendary and another legendary creature with the same name is controlled by the same player, or if its toughness is 0 or less.
- 2018-12-07
Ulamog's ability triggers as you cast it, and that ability resolves before the spell itself. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hearthhull, the Worldseed | 2 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Jund 2 decks
Every version of Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
9 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
- $34.86
- Foil
- $39.76

Inverted
- Normal
- $45.28
- Foil
- $48.04

Etched
- Etched
- $44.17

Inverted
- Foil
- $96.08

Ultimate Masters
- Normal
- $34.06
- Foil
- $37.77

Extended Art
Ultimate Box Topper
- Foil
- $55.80

Modern Masters 2015
- Normal
- $35.83
- Foil
- $36.17

From the Vault: Legends
- Foil
- $44.53

Rise of the Eldrazi
- Normal
- $35.25
- Foil
- $147.99
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre — 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.