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
- Theros (THS #85)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana value
- 4
- Released
- 2013-09-27
- Artist
- Peter Mohrbacher
- EDHREC rank
- #2,978
- 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.
- Exsanguinate
- Whip of Erebos
- Underworld Dreams
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Damnation
- Nirkana Revenant
- Liliana of the Dark Realms
- Torment of Hailfire
- Phyrexian Obliterator
- Exquisite Blood
- Painful Quandary
- No Mercy
- Expedition Map
- Crypt Ghast
- Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- Massacre Wurm
- Creeping Bloodsucker
- Mutilate
- Dread Presence
- Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- Magus of the Coffers
- Twilight Prophet
- Caged Sun
- Sanguine Bond
- Cabal Coffers
- Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
- Vampire Nighthawk
- Font of Agonies
- Phyrexian Arena
- Consuming Corruption
- Kokusho, the Evening Star
- Nyx Lotus
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Bloodletter of Aclazotz
- Polluted Bonds
- Erebos's Intervention
- Tymaret, Chosen from Death
- Sorin Markov
- Cabal Stronghold
- Pestilence
- Enduring Tenacity
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
- Decree of Pain
- Vilis, Broker of Blood
- Gifted Aetherborn
- Sudden Spoiling
- Bloodthirsty Conqueror
- Nighthawk Scavenger
- Oubliette
- Toxic Deluge
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Sol Ring
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Cabal Coffers
- Crypt Ghast
- Exsanguinate
- Jet Medallion
- Dark Ritual
- Phyrexian Arena
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- Bojuka Bog
- Arcane Signet
- Feed the Swarm
- Whip of Erebos
- Damnation
- Toxic Deluge
- Cabal Stronghold
- Torment of Hailfire
- Liliana of the Dark Realms
- Massacre Wurm
- Nirkana Revenant
- Exquisite Blood
- Underworld Dreams
- Phyrexian Obliterator
- Mutilate
- Defile
- Expedition Map
- Reanimate
- Bolas's Citadel
- Reliquary Tower
- Painful Quandary
- Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- Thought Vessel
- Demonic Tutor
- Dread Presence
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
- No Mercy
- Withering Torment
- Sign in Blood
- Consuming Corruption
- The Darkness Crystal
- Sanguine Bond
- Deadly Rollick
- Caged Sun
- Myriad Landscape
- The Meathook Massacre
- Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
- Mind Stone
- 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.