Karlach, Fury of Avernus
- Mana cost
- {4}{R}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Tiefling Barbarian
- Power / toughness
- 5 / 4
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate #507 (mythic)
Whenever you attack, if it's the first combat phase of the turn, untap all attacking creatures. They gain first strike until end of turn. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
Karlach, Fury of Avernus has 6 printings, first in Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (2022). EDHREC ranks it #1,070 among Commander cards. It appears most in Isshin, Two Heavens as One decks (9,219 on EDHREC). It has 12 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Karlach, Fury of Avernus most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Isshin, Two Heavens as One: 9,219 decks
- Lightning, Army of One: 6,346 decks
- Kratos, God of War: 4,322 decks
- Tifa, Martial Artist: 3,263 decks
- Maarika, Brutal Gladiator: 3,136 decks
- Wolverine, Best There Is: 2,646 decks
- Ozai, the Phoenix King: 2,411 decks
- Raphael, Fiendish Savior: 2,305 decks
Often played with Karlach, Fury of Avernus
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Notably, the triggered ability of Karlach doesn't give you any additional main phases. This means that you will move directly from the end of combat step of one combat phase to the beginning of combat step of the next one.
- : An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.
- : If you control a Background that grants an ability to commander creatures you own, and you own more than one commander creature, each of them will have that ability.
- : If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.
- : Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won’t have to pay an additional {2} the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined (although your Background won’t usually be a creature anyway).
- : Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.
- : If a card refers to a commander creature you own, a Background won't usually be counted or included for that effect. If another spell or ability causes your Background to become a creature, however, it will be included. Any effect that refers to your commander or a commander you own or control without specifying creature will apply to a Background that is your commander, as appropriate.
- : You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.
- : If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders’ combined color identities.
- : Choose a Background is a variant of the partner ability. You may have two commanders if one of them is a legendary creature with the choose a background ability and the other is a legendary Background enchantment. Backgrounds and cards with choose a Background do not interact with cards which have any other partner ability.
- : Karlach doesn't have to be among the attacking creatures.
- : If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.