MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #13

Demon of Death's Gate

DIGITAL ONLY

aa4·#13·mythic·nonfoil

Illus. Vance Kovacs

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Sep '25

11 mo ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #13,372 · Fringe play

Variants

Nonfoil

Gameplay

Creature — Demon

You may pay 6 life and sacrifice three black creatures rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Flying, trample

9/9

Legalities

tlrnot legal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 3

2010-08-15wotc

Casting Demon of Death's Gate by paying its alternative cost doesn't change its mana cost or mana value.

2010-08-15wotc

Casting Demon of Death's Gate by paying its alternative cost doesn't change when you can cast it. You can cast it only at the normal time you could cast a creature spell.

2010-08-15wotc

Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast Demon of Death's Gate will apply to it even if you choose to pay its alternative cost.

Context

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from AA4 — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #13 of *Arena Anthology 4*, the set that shipped alongside the September 2025 Arena Anthology 4 release.

Card type: Creature — Demon, color identity black, printed at mythic. Mythic rares historically land in roughly one out of every eight boosters at standard print densities. Mana cost: {6}{B}{B}{B} (9 converted). Keyword abilities: Flying and Trample.

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #13,372 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Vance Kovacs. Rarix catalogs 253 other cards credited to this artist.