Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
Legendary Enchantment Creature — God
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.
5 / 6
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death (THB #262)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana value
- 4
- Released
- 2020-01-24
- Artist
- Jason A. Engle
- EDHREC rank
- #4,122
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- 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.
- Bastion of Remembrance
- Reassembling Skeleton
- Zulaport Cutthroat
- Viscera Seer
- Woe Strider
- Pawn of Ulamog
- Ophiomancer
- Sifter of Skulls
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
- Ayara, First of Locthwain
- Blood Artist
- Pitiless Plunderer
- Midnight Reaper
- Grim Haruspex
- Abhorrent Overlord
- Accursed Marauder
- Victimize
- Bloodghast
- Dictate of Erebos
- Umbral Collar Zealot
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Dreadhorde Invasion
- Plaguecrafter
- Ashnod's Altar
- Nether Traitor
- Morbid Opportunist
- Cult Conscript
- Priest of Forgotten Gods
- Font of Agonies
- Nine-Lives Familiar
- Vengeful Bloodwitch
- Whip of Erebos
- Vraan, Executioner Thane
- Carrion Feeder
- Skullclamp
- Erebos's Intervention
- Vindictive Vampire
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare
- Underworld Hermit
- Liliana, Dreadhorde General
- Butcher of Malakir
- Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
- Altar of the Pantheon
- Marionette Apprentice
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Dread Return
- Shriekmaw
- Tymaret, Chosen from Death
- Falkenrath Noble
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Sol Ring
- Zulaport Cutthroat
- Blood Artist
- Arcane Signet
- Bastion of Remembrance
- Reassembling Skeleton
- Jet Medallion
- Viscera Seer
- Ayara, First of Locthwain
- Victimize
- Ophiomancer
- Crypt Ghast
- Bojuka Bog
- Cabal Coffers
- Dark Ritual
- Feed the Swarm
- Pitiless Plunderer
- Accursed Marauder
- Pawn of Ulamog
- Morbid Opportunist
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
- Plaguecrafter
- Ashnod's Altar
- Woe Strider
- Skullclamp
- Cabal Stronghold
- Phyrexian Tower
- Mind Stone
- Village Rites
- Sifter of Skulls
- Bontu's Monument
- Bloodghast
- Midnight Reaper
- Grim Haruspex
- Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare
- Reanimate
- Dictate of Erebos
- Exsanguinate
- Defile
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Withering Torment
- Myriad Landscape
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Phyrexian Arena
- Witch's Cottage
- Abhorrent Overlord
Format legality
Rulings
- 2020-01-24
As a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color will determine whether any replacement effects that affect creatures entering the battlefield apply to that God. Because replacement effects are considered before the God is on the battlefield, the mana symbols in its mana cost won’t be counted when determining this.
- 2020-01-24
Colorless and generic mana symbols (
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, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don’t count toward your devotion to any color. - 2020-01-24
Counters put on a God remain on it while it’s not a creature, even if they have no effect.
- 2020-01-24
Erebos’s last ability can target the creature you’ll sacrifice to pay its cost. In this case, the ability won’t resolve, but Erebos’s triggered ability will trigger.
- 2020-01-24
Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).
- 2020-01-24
If a God is attacking or blocking and it stops being a creature, it will be removed from combat. It won’t rejoin combat if it resumes being a creature later during that combat.
- 2020-01-24
If a God stops being a creature, it loses the type creature and the creature type God. It continues to be a legendary enchantment.
- 2020-01-24
If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it’s still on the battlefield at that time.
- 2020-01-24
If an effect causes a God to lose all abilities, its ability that causes it to stop being a creature still applies if appropriate.
- 2020-01-24
If one or more creatures you control die at the same time as Erebos, its triggered ability triggers for each of those creatures.
- 2020-01-24
If you put an Aura on an opponent’s permanent, you still control the Aura, and mana symbols in its mana cost count towards your devotion.
- 2020-01-24
Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don’t count toward your devotion to any color.
- 2020-01-24
The abilities of Gods function as long as they’re on the battlefield, regardless of whether they’re creatures.
- 2020-01-24
The type-changing ability that can make a God not be a creature functions only on the battlefield. It’s always a creature card in other zones, regardless of your devotion to its color. It’s always a creature spell while it’s on the stack.
- 2020-01-24
When a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color (including the mana symbols in the mana cost of the God itself) will determine if a creature entered the battlefield or not for abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield.
- 2020-01-24
While resolving Erebos’s triggered ability, you can’t pay more than 2 life to draw more than one card.