Mortarion, Daemon Primarch
Legendary Creature — Demon Primarch
Flying
Primarch of the Death Guard — At the beginning of your end step, you may pay 
. If you do, create X 2/2 black Astartes Warrior creature tokens with menace. X can't be greater than the amount of life you lost this turn.
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- Set
- Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K #41)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 6
- Released
- 2022-10-07
- Artist
- Helge C. Balzer
- EDHREC rank
- #12,022
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Tallyman of Nurgle
- Defiler of Flesh
- Great Unclean One
- Whip of Erebos
- Greed
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
- Plague Drone
- Thrasher Brute
- Raiders' Spoils
- Mindblade Render
- Dross Harvester
- Ayara, First of Locthwain
- Exsanguinate
- Font of Agonies
- Pact Weapon
- Mirkwood Bats
- Nurgle's Conscription
- Marshland Bloodcaster
- Wall of Blood
- Dread Presence
- Nurgle's Rot
- Caged Sun
- Phyrexian Arena
- Infernal Grasp
- Black Market Connections
- Sign in Blood
- Vilis, Broker of Blood
- Venomcrawler
- Creeping Bloodsucker
- Bitter Triumph
- Blight Grenade
- Feed the Swarm
- Consuming Corruption
- Doom Whisperer
- Nirkana Revenant
- Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
- Darkstar Augur
- Exquisite Blood
- Demon's Horn
- Night's Whisper
- Bolas's Citadel
- Phyrexian Reclamation
- Dark Confidant
- Toxic Deluge
- Read the Bones
- Decree of Pain
- Staff of Compleation
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Castle Locthwain
- Crypt Ghast
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Sol Ring
- Feed the Swarm
- Tallyman of Nurgle
- Phyrexian Arena
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
- Dark Ritual
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Whip of Erebos
- Crypt Ghast
- Ayara, First of Locthwain
- Arcane Signet
- Sign in Blood
- Jet Medallion
- Defiler of Flesh
- Exsanguinate
- Cabal Coffers
- Greed
- Toxic Deluge
- Great Unclean One
- Infernal Grasp
- Black Market Connections
- Bolas's Citadel
- Plague Drone
- Bojuka Bog
- Blood Artist
- Night's Whisper
- Thrasher Brute
- Dread Presence
- Defile
- Reanimate
- Cabal Stronghold
- Raiders' Spoils
- Reliquary Tower
- Mirkwood Bats
- Mindblade Render
- Caged Sun
- Withering Torment
- Bontu's Monument
- Font of Agonies
- Consuming Corruption
- Zulaport Cutthroat
- Dross Harvester
- Vilis, Broker of Blood
- Pact Weapon
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Bitter Triumph
- Nurgle's Conscription
- Thought Vessel
- Exquisite Blood
Format legality
Rulings
- 2022-10-07
If a spell or ability sets a player's life total to a specified amount, that player gains or loses the appropriate amount of life. For example, if your life total is 20 and an effect sets your life total to 15, you lost 5 life.
- 2022-10-07
Mortarion, Demon Primarch's ability looks only at the amount of life you've lost this turn, regardless of any life you may have gained. For example, if you lost 3 life due to combat damage, but gained 2 life later in the turn, X may be up to 3 for this ability.