Archfiend of Despair
- Mana cost
- {6}{B}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Demon
- Power / toughness
- 6 / 6
- Set
- Battlebond #44 (mythic)
- Price
- $23.09 USD
Flying
Your opponents can't gain life.
At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Archfiend of Despair has 4 printings, first in Battlebond (2018). EDHREC ranks it #2,243 among Commander cards. It appears most in Kaalia of the Vast decks (14,225 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Archfiend of Despair
- Multiverse Reforged - Reality Fracture, led by Jace, Multiverse Architect
Commanders that run Archfiend of Despair most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Kaalia of the Vast: 14,225 decks
- Jace, Multiverse Architect: 7,402 decks
- Be'lakor, the Dark Master: 6,945 decks
- Rakdos, Lord of Riots: 3,751 decks
- Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls: 2,502 decks
- Ardyn, the Usurper: 1,664 decks
- Nissa, Leyline Tamer: 1,373 decks
- Taborax, Hope's Demise: 918 decks
Often played with Archfiend of Despair
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Archfiend of Despair's last ability counts only how much life was lost. It doesn't care whether a player also gained life.
- : The amount of life to lose is determined only as Archfiend of Despair's triggered ability resolves. For example, if you control two of them and an opponent lost 3 life earlier in the turn, the first ability to resolve would have that player lose 3 life, and the second would have that player lose 6 life.
- : In a Two-Headed Giant game, damage and life loss happen to each player individually. If each player on a team is dealt 2 damage, each of those players loses 2 life and the team's life total goes down by 4. When Archfiend of Despair's ability resolves, each of those players again loses 2 life and the team's life total goes down again by 4; they don't each lose 4 life.