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Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
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Tergrid, God of Fright

{3}{B}{B}

Legendary Creature — God

Menace

Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent or discards a permanent card, you may put that card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Fear is her one true companion.

4 / 5

Menace
Set
Kaldheim Promos (PKHM #112s)
Rarity
Rare
Mana value
5
Released
2021-02-05
Artist
Yongjae Choi
EDHREC rank
#1,562
Colour identity
{B}
Finishes
Foil
Served from
Local database

Commander bracket

3 +
Bracket 3 and up — Upgraded
Game Changer

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 2.80
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Game ChangerCan be your commander

Combos 1

Ley Weaver+Maze of Ith+Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
{B}{G}
Infinite colored manaInfinite colorless manaInfinite lifelossInfinite untap of lands you control

Commander recommendations

Top synergy 50

Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.

  1. Smallpox 72 %+66.6 %
  2. Waste Not 77 %+66.4 %
  3. Dark Deal 71 %+59.7 %
  4. Rankle, Master of Pranks 67 %+54.7 %
  5. Oppression 60 %+53.0 %
  6. Plaguecrafter 71 %+50.8 %
  7. Geth's Grimoire 56 %+49.4 %
  8. Elderfang Disciple 56 %+49.4 %
  9. Syphon Mind 60 %+47.7 %
  10. Liliana's Triumph 53 %+46.9 %
  11. Burglar Rat 57 %+46.6 %
  12. Liliana of the Veil 53 %+46.5 %
  13. Geier Reach Sanitarium 56 %+45.7 %
  14. Soul Shatter 57 %+45.4 %
  15. Sheoldred's Edict 60 %+44.5 %
  16. Innocent Blood 48 %+42.1 %
  17. Mire in Misery 44 %+40.9 %
  18. Mindslicer 44 %+39.9 %
  19. Painful Quandary 49 %+39.2 %
  20. Virus Beetle 45 %+39.0 %
  21. Pox 39 %+37.1 %
  22. Bottomless Pit 42 %+36.9 %
  23. Vicious Rumors 42 %+36.0 %
  24. Death Cloud 37 %+35.2 %
  25. Braids, Arisen Nightmare 54 %+33.9 %
  26. The Raven Man 39 %+33.8 %
  27. Vona's Hunger 38 %+33.3 %
  28. Sheoldred, Whispering One 42 %+30.7 %
  29. Torment of Hailfire 45 %+30.7 %
  30. Fleshbag Marauder 47 %+30.1 %
  31. Rankle's Prank 34 %+30.0 %
  32. Phyrexian Obliterator 41 %+29.9 %
  33. Accursed Marauder 51 %+29.2 %
  34. Archfiend of Depravity 36 %+29.1 %
  35. Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal 35 %+28.9 %
  36. Demon's Disciple 35 %+27.5 %
  37. Necrogen Mists 32 %+27.5 %
  38. Tinybones, Trinket Thief 30 %+26.4 %
  39. Tourach, Dread Cantor 31 %+26.4 %
  40. Sangromancer 36 %+26.3 %
  41. Nezumi Informant 32 %+25.9 %
  42. Delirium Skeins 29 %+25.2 %
  43. Liliana, Waker of the Dead 28 %+24.2 %
  44. Duress 30 %+24.0 %
  45. Liliana's Caress 29 %+23.8 %
  46. The Eldest Reborn 27 %+23.6 %
  47. Braids, Cabal Minion 27 %+23.4 %
  48. Thoughtseize 28 %+23.3 %
  49. Pox Plague 28 %+23.3 %
  50. Fraying Omnipotence 24 %+22.2 %

Most included 50

Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.

  1. Swamp 94 %-1.3 %
  2. Sol Ring 92 %+6.9 %
  3. Dark Ritual 80 %+12.9 %
  4. Waste Not 77 %+66.4 %
  5. Smallpox 72 %+66.6 %
  6. Plaguecrafter 71 %+50.8 %
  7. Dark Deal 71 %+59.7 %
  8. Arcane Signet 70 %+8.6 %
  9. Jet Medallion 67 %+5.3 %
  10. Rankle, Master of Pranks 67 %+54.7 %
  11. Oppression 60 %+53.0 %
  12. Cabal Coffers 60 %+5.4 %
  13. Syphon Mind 60 %+47.7 %
  14. Sheoldred's Edict 60 %+44.5 %
  15. Burglar Rat 57 %+46.6 %
  16. Soul Shatter 57 %+45.4 %
  17. Geth's Grimoire 56 %+49.4 %
  18. Geier Reach Sanitarium 56 %+45.7 %
  19. Elderfang Disciple 56 %+49.4 %
  20. Lightning Greaves 54 %+19.9 %
  21. Braids, Arisen Nightmare 54 %+33.9 %
  22. Liliana of the Veil 53 %+46.5 %
  23. Crypt Ghast 53 %+6.3 %
  24. Liliana's Triumph 53 %+46.9 %
  25. Accursed Marauder 51 %+29.2 %
  26. Painful Quandary 49 %+39.2 %
  27. Innocent Blood 48 %+42.1 %
  28. Fleshbag Marauder 47 %+30.1 %
  29. Torment of Hailfire 45 %+30.7 %
  30. Virus Beetle 45 %+39.0 %
  31. Mindslicer 44 %+39.9 %
  32. Mire in Misery 44 %+40.9 %
  33. Phyrexian Arena 44 %+4.8 %
  34. Sheoldred, Whispering One 42 %+30.7 %
  35. Bottomless Pit 42 %+36.9 %
  36. Vicious Rumors 42 %+36.0 %
  37. Swiftfoot Boots 41 %+9.9 %
  38. Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth 41 %+3.5 %
  39. Phyrexian Obliterator 41 %+29.9 %
  40. Bojuka Bog 40 %-7.0 %
  41. Cabal Stronghold 40 %+5.7 %
  42. Pox 39 %+37.1 %
  43. Reanimate 39 %-1.5 %
  44. The Raven Man 39 %+33.8 %
  45. Gray Merchant of Asphodel 39 %-11.4 %
  46. Demonic Tutor 38 %+10.8 %
  47. Vona's Hunger 38 %+33.3 %
  48. Death Cloud 37 %+35.2 %
  49. Mind Stone 37 %+9.1 %
  50. Sangromancer 36 %+26.3 %

Format legality

Rulings

  • 2021-02-05

    A modal double-faced card can't be transformed or be put onto the battlefield transformed. Ignore any instruction to transform a modal double-faced card or to put one onto the battlefield transformed.

  • 2021-02-05

    A permanent card is an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card.

  • 2021-02-05

    If an effect allows you to play a land or cast a spell from among a group of cards, you may play or cast a modal double-faced card with any face that fits the criteria of that effect.

  • 2021-02-05

    If an effect allows you to play a specific modal double-faced card, you may cast it as a spell or play it as a land, as determined by which face you choose to play. If an effect allows you to cast (rather than "play") a specific modal double-faced card, you can't play it as a land.

  • 2021-02-05

    If an effect instructs a player to choose a card name, the name of either face may be chosen. If that effect or a linked ability refers to a spell with the chosen name being cast and/or a land with the chosen name being played, it considers only the chosen name, not the other face's name.

  • 2021-02-05

    If an effect puts a double-faced card onto the battlefield, it enters with its front face up. If that front face can't be put onto the battlefield, it doesn't enter the battlefield.

  • 2021-02-05

    If an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent or discards a permanent card as part of paying the cost of a spell or ability, Tergrid's ability will trigger and goes on the stack on top of that spell or ability. Tergrid's ability will resolve before that spell or ability.

  • 2021-02-05

    If an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent, it doesn't matter which graveyard it goes to. Tergrid's ability will trigger.

  • 2021-02-05

    If the card leaves the graveyard before Tergrid's ability resolves, you can't put it onto the battlefield, even if it returns to the graveyard before the ability resolves.

  • 2021-02-05

    If you put an Aura onto the battlefield using Tergrid's ability, you choose what the Aura will enchant just before it enters the battlefield. An Aura put onto the battlefield this way doesn't target the player or permanent it will enchant, so permanents or players with hexproof may be chosen; however, the chosen recipient must be able to legally be enchanted by the Aura, so a player or permanent with protection from one of the Aura's qualities can't be chosen this way. If there's nothing legal for the Aura to enchant, it stays in the graveyard.

  • 2021-02-05

    In the Commander variant, a double-faced card's color identity is determined by the mana costs and mana symbols in the rules text of both faces combined. If either face has a color indicator or basic land type, those are also considered.

  • 2021-02-05

    The mana value of a modal double-faced card is based on the characteristics of the face that's being considered. On the stack and battlefield, consider whichever face is up. In all other zones, consider only the front face. This is different than how the mana value of a transforming double-faced card is determined.

  • 2021-02-05

    The player targeted by the first ability of Tergrid's Lantern can choose to lose 3 life even if they have nonland permanents to sacrifice or cards to discard. They can't choose to sacrifice a nonland permanent if they don't control any, nor can they choose to discard a card if they have none in hand.

  • 2021-02-05

    There is a single triangle icon in the top left corner of the front face. There is a double triangle icon in the top left corner of the back face.

  • 2021-02-05

    To determine whether it is legal to play a modal double-faced card, consider only the characteristics of the face you're playing and ignore the other face's characteristics.

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