Captive Audience

Commanders that run Captive Audience most

Deck counts from EDHREC.

• Blim, Comedic Genius: 4,154 decks
• Xantcha, Sleeper Agent: 2,054 decks
• Ghen, Arcanum Weaver: 1,277 decks
• Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor: 1,187 decks
• Kardur, Doomscourge: 693 decks
• The Infamous Cruelclaw: 642 decks
• Mathas, Fiend Seeker: 596 decks
• The Lord of Pain: 461 decks

Often played with Captive Audience

Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.

• Ebon Drake
• Rust Elemental
• Colfenor's Plans
• Wretched Anurid
• Midnight Oil
• Grid Monitor
• Goldnight Castigator
• Steel Golem
• Forbidden Crypt
• Greed's Gambit

Rulings

• 2019-01-25: In a Two-Headed Giant game, Captive Audience’s first mode causes its controller to gain or lose life so that their team’s life total becomes 4.
• 2019-01-25: In a multiplayer game, if Captive Audience’s owner leaves the game, Captive Audience leaves the game with them. If Captive Audience’s controller leaves the game, Captive Audience is exiled (assuming that player wasn’t also Captive Audience’s owner).
• 2019-01-25: For a player’s life total to become 4, that player gains or loses the appropriate amount of life. For example, if a player’s life total is 20, Captive Audience will cause that player to lose 16 life; alternatively, if their life total is 1, it will cause them to gain 3 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly.
• 2019-01-25: If all three modes have been chosen, Captive Audience’s triggered ability is removed from the stack with no effect, but Captive Audience remains on the battlefield.
• 2019-01-25: Once Captive Audience is controlled by your opponent, its ability triggers during that player’s upkeep and that player makes all choices for it. That player is affected by its first two modes, and that player’s opponents create the tokens for its last mode.
• 2019-01-25: You may choose Captive Audience’s first mode even if your life total is already 4. Similarly, you may choose its second mode even if you have no cards in hand.