Karlach, Fury of Avernus
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SetCLB
Collector #186
Released2022-06-10
Raritymythic
ArtistBilly Christian
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Karlach, Fury of Avernus

MythicColour IDMV 5
Legendary Creature — Tiefling Barbarian
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.)
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Keywords
Choose a background
Card capabilities
CreatureLegendary creature
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
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Other printings
5 other English printingsEarliest 2022-06-10Newest 2026-11-09Cheapest priced $17.50 in CLB
Rulings (12)
wotc10 Jun 2022
Karlach doesn't have to be among the attacking creatures.
wotc10 Jun 2022
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.
wotc10 Jun 2022
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).
wotc10 Jun 2022
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.
wotc10 Jun 2022
If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.
wotc10 Jun 2022
You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.