Erebos, God of the Dead
Legendary Enchantment Creature — God
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
5 / 7
- Set
- Pioneer Masters (PIO #291)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana value
- 4
- Released
- 2024-12-10
- Artist
- Bram Sels
- EDHREC rank
- #3,094
- 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.
- Exsanguinate
- Whip of Erebos
- Underworld Dreams
- Nirkana Revenant
- Damnation
- Liliana of the Dark Realms
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Torment of Hailfire
- Phyrexian Obliterator
- Exquisite Blood
- Expedition Map
- Crypt Ghast
- No Mercy
- Painful Quandary
- Massacre Wurm
- Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- Creeping Bloodsucker
- Mutilate
- Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- Dread Presence
- Magus of the Coffers
- Twilight Prophet
- Caged Sun
- Sanguine Bond
- Cabal Coffers
- Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
- Kokusho, the Evening Star
- Phyrexian Arena
- Bloodletter of Aclazotz
- Vampire Nighthawk
- Font of Agonies
- Consuming Corruption
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Polluted Bonds
- Nyx Lotus
- Erebos's Intervention
- Tymaret, Chosen from Death
- Cabal Stronghold
- Sorin Markov
- Vilis, Broker of Blood
- Pestilence
- Enduring Tenacity
- Bloodthirsty Conqueror
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
- Gifted Aetherborn
- Toxic Deluge
- Nighthawk Scavenger
- Sudden Spoiling
- Oubliette
- Decree of Pain
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Sol Ring
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Cabal Coffers
- Crypt Ghast
- Jet Medallion
- Exsanguinate
- Dark Ritual
- Phyrexian Arena
- Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Arcane Signet
- Bojuka Bog
- Whip of Erebos
- Feed the Swarm
- Damnation
- Toxic Deluge
- Cabal Stronghold
- Liliana of the Dark Realms
- Torment of Hailfire
- Massacre Wurm
- Nirkana Revenant
- Exquisite Blood
- Phyrexian Obliterator
- Underworld Dreams
- Reanimate
- Defile
- Mutilate
- Expedition Map
- Bolas's Citadel
- Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- Reliquary Tower
- Thought Vessel
- Painful Quandary
- Demonic Tutor
- Withering Torment
- Dread Presence
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
- Sign in Blood
- No Mercy
- The Darkness Crystal
- Consuming Corruption
- Deadly Rollick
- Sanguine Bond
- Caged Sun
- Myriad Landscape
- The Meathook Massacre
- Mind Stone
- Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
- Charcoal Diamond
Format legality
Rulings
- 2013-09-15
Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).
- 2013-09-15
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.
- 2013-09-15
Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
- 2013-09-15
Numeric mana symbols (
, , and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color. - 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
Counters put on a God remain on it while it's not a creature, even if they have no effect.
- 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 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
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.