Join the Dead
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}{B}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #110 (common)
- Price
- $0.18 USD
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Descend 4 — That creature gets -10/-10 until end of turn instead if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard.
Join the Dead has 1 printing, first in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (2023). EDHREC ranks it #13,176 among Commander cards. It appears most in Massacre Girl, Known Killer decks (1,737 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Join the Dead most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Massacre Girl, Known Killer: 1,737 decks
- The Mycotyrant: 526 decks
- The Ancient One: 415 decks
- Zoyowa Lava-Tongue: 228 decks
- Akawalli, the Seething Tower: 210 decks
- Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake: 19 decks
- Oroku Saki, Shredder Rising: 3 decks
- Venom, Evil Unleashed: 2 decks
Often played with Join the Dead
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Some descend triggered abilities include intervening "if" clauses (i.e. "if you have [four or eight] permanent cards in your graveyard" in the middle of the ability). Each of these abilities checks your graveyard at the moment it would trigger to see if it does. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability doesn't trigger at all. If it does trigger, it will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.
- : Cards with the ability word "descend N" have abilities that care if you have at least N permanent cards in your graveyard.