Mortal Combat
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 3.36 € · ★ 10.70 € · 6.28 $ · ★ 17.55 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Colour
- Black
Card text
At the beginning of your upkeep, if twenty or more creature cards are in your graveyard, you win the game.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Mike Ploog
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2007-07-13
Flavour text
The crowd roared, the fighters bled, and the dead piled high in the pits. Only the Cabal could win.
Rulings
If you don’t have twenty or more creature cards in your graveyard by the time your upkeep starts, the ability won’t trigger that turn.
Mortal Combat’s ability has an “intervening ‘if’ clause,” so the condition is checked again when the triggered ability resolves. If you don’t still have twenty creature cards in your graveyard, the ability does nothing.