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◇ Catalog #84

Certain Death

emn·#84·common·nonfoil

Illus. Kev Walker

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wishlisted

Jul '16

10 yr ago

Value

$0.06+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $0.06 · low $0.06

NM$0.06

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$0.06–$0.06modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $0.07low $0.04range 75.0%n 46

Where to buy / sell

TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #23,857 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$0.25

Nonfoil$0.06

Gameplay

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Some spirits cling to one person, feasting on the growing fear until a final moment of all-consuming terror.

Legalities

tlrnot legal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennynot legal

PreDHnot legal

Rulings · 2

2016-07-13wotc

The targeted creature will have already left the battlefield before its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. If it has any abilities that care about gaining or losing life, they won’t apply.

2016-07-13wotc

If the creature becomes an illegal target for Certain Death, no player gains or loses life. If it’s a legal target but isn’t destroyed, most likely due to having indestructible, its controller still loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $0.06. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.04 and $0.07 across 46 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from EMN — the lineup includes Foil and 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 #84 of *Eldritch Moon*, the set that shipped alongside the July 2016 Eldritch Moon release.

Card type: Sorcery, color identity black, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {5}{B} (6 converted).

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

EDHrec ranks this card #23,857 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Kev Walker. Rarix catalogs 1,917 other cards credited to this artist.