Tar Fiend
- Mana cost
- {5}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Elemental
- Power / toughness
- 4 / 4
- Set
- Shards of Alara #89 (rare)
- Price
- $0.34 USD
Devour 2 (As this creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.)
When this creature enters, target player discards a card for each creature it devoured.
Tar Fiend has 1 printing, first in Shards of Alara (2008). EDHREC ranks it #25,642 among Commander cards. It appears most in Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder decks (240 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Tar Fiend most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder: 240 decks
Often played with Tar Fiend
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If you cast this as a spell, you choose how many and which creatures to devour as part of the resolution of that spell. (It can't be countered at this point.) The same is true of a spell or ability that lets you put a creature with devour onto the battlefield.
- : You may choose not to sacrifice any creatures for the Devour ability.
- : You may sacrifice only creatures that are already on the battlefield. If a creature with devour and another creature are entering under your control at the same time, the creature with devour can't devour that other creature. The creature with devour also can't devour itself.
- : If multiple creatures with devour are entering under your control at the same time, you may use each one's devour ability. A creature you already control can be devoured by only one of them, however. (In other words, you can't sacrifice the same creature to satisfy multiple devour abilities.) All creatures devoured this way are sacrificed at the same time.