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
- #4,294
- 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
- Ophiomancer
- Pawn of Ulamog
- Sifter of Skulls
- Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Blood Artist
- Ayara, First of Locthwain
- Pitiless Plunderer
- Abhorrent Overlord
- Grim Haruspex
- Midnight Reaper
- Accursed Marauder
- Bloodghast
- Victimize
- Dictate of Erebos
- Umbral Collar Zealot
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Dreadhorde Invasion
- Plaguecrafter
- Morbid Opportunist
- Cult Conscript
- Priest of Forgotten Gods
- Ashnod's Altar
- Nether Traitor
- Nine-Lives Familiar
- Vengeful Bloodwitch
- Whip of Erebos
- Font of Agonies
- Carrion Feeder
- Vraan, Executioner Thane
- Vindictive Vampire
- Erebos's Intervention
- Skullclamp
- Liliana, Dreadhorde General
- Underworld Hermit
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
- Marionette Apprentice
- Butcher of Malakir
- Tymaret, Chosen from Death
- Dread Return
- Altar of the Pantheon
- Shriekmaw
- Crowded Crypt
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Sol Ring
- Zulaport Cutthroat
- Blood Artist
- Bastion of Remembrance
- Reassembling Skeleton
- Arcane Signet
- Jet Medallion
- Viscera Seer
- Ayara, First of Locthwain
- Ophiomancer
- Victimize
- Bojuka Bog
- Crypt Ghast
- Cabal Coffers
- Dark Ritual
- Feed the Swarm
- Pitiless Plunderer
- Accursed Marauder
- Morbid Opportunist
- Pawn of Ulamog
- Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Plaguecrafter
- Woe Strider
- Ashnod's Altar
- Skullclamp
- Cabal Stronghold
- Phyrexian Tower
- Mind Stone
- Bloodghast
- Sifter of Skulls
- Village Rites
- Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- Bontu's Monument
- Midnight Reaper
- Grim Haruspex
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Dictate of Erebos
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare
- Exsanguinate
- Reanimate
- Defile
- Withering Torment
- Myriad Landscape
- Witch's Cottage
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Abhorrent Overlord
- Umbral Collar Zealot
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.