Card
Mortal Combat
Mana cost {2}{B}{B}
At the beginning of your upkeep, if twenty or more creature cards are in your graveyard, you win the game.
Part of 2 known combos, 2 of them two-card. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · TOR · #71
- Cheapest printing
- €2.69
- EDHREC salt
- 0.45
- Color identity
- Black
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Iname, Death Aspect, Morality Shift
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Iname, Death Aspect, Morality Shift
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partner: Iname, Death Aspect
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Iname, Death Aspect, Morality Shift (early with Iname, Death Aspect)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
2 known combos, 2 of them two-card.
- Iname, Death Aspect + Mortal Combat
Produces: Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
View on Commander Spellbook - Morality Shift + Mortal Combat
Produces: Near-infinite self-mill, Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2007-07-15 · Wizards of the Coast
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. - 2007-07-15 · Wizards of the Coast
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.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast