Egon, God of Death
Legendary Creature — God
Deathtouch
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile two cards from your graveyard. If you can't, sacrifice Egon and draw a card.
6 / 6
- Set
- Kaldheim (KHM #306)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2021-02-05
- Artist
- Jeff Miracola
- EDHREC rank
- #11,452
- 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.
- Stitcher's Supplier
- Millikin
- Tormod, the Desecrator
- Dakmor Salvage
- Perpetual Timepiece
- Undead Butler
- Ripples of Undeath
- Cemetery Tampering
- Golgari Thug
- Stinkweed Imp
- Sewer Nemesis
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Mire Triton
- Grave Researcher
- Vengeful Pharaoh
- Dread Return
- Desecrated Tomb
- Angel of Suffering
- Codex Shredder
- Stitch Together
- Unshakable Tail
- Mindwrack Harpy
- Songs of the Damned
- Dreadhound
- Fang, Fearless l'Cie
- Doom Whisperer
- Overlord of the Balemurk
- Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab
- Teval's Judgment
- Out of the Tombs
- The Cauldron of Eternity
- Corpse Churn
- Crucible of Worlds
- Living Death
- Undead Hand Ninja
- Avacyn, Angel of Horror
- Doomed Necromancer
- Funeral Rites
- Troll of Khazad-dûm
- Crypt of Agadeem
- Wand of Vertebrae
- Grim Reaper's Scythe
- Overwhelming Remorse
- Skeleton Crew
- Mesmeric Orb
- Along the Crooked Way
- Twilight Diviner
- Ghoulcaller's Bell
- Boneyard Mycodrax
- Ravenous Chupacabra
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Stitcher's Supplier
- Sol Ring
- Millikin
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Tormod, the Desecrator
- Arcane Signet
- Ripples of Undeath
- Dakmor Salvage
- Perpetual Timepiece
- Feed the Swarm
- Undead Butler
- Bojuka Bog
- Reanimate
- Dread Return
- Cemetery Tampering
- Grave Researcher
- Victimize
- Dark Ritual
- Cabal Coffers
- Golgari Thug
- Stinkweed Imp
- Jet Medallion
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Mire Triton
- Sewer Nemesis
- Desecrated Tomb
- Vengeful Pharaoh
- Stitch Together
- Songs of the Damned
- Crypt Ghast
- Myriad Landscape
- Codex Shredder
- Angel of Suffering
- Withering Torment
- Living Death
- Crypt of Agadeem
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Unshakable Tail
- Dreadhound
- Mindwrack Harpy
- Cabal Stronghold
- Doom Whisperer
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- Buried Alive
- Deadly Dispute
- Witch's Cottage
- Fang, Fearless l'Cie
- Fell the Profane
- Avacyn, Angel of Horror
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
Although players may respond to Throne of Death's activated ability, they can't respond to the paying of its activation cost. The creature card will already be exiled by the time anyone can respond.
- 2021-02-05
If Egon leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, you'll still exile two cards from your graveyard if you can and draw a card if you can't.
- 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 there's only one card in your graveyard, you won't exile it. Because you can't exile two cards from your graveyard, you'll sacrifice Egon and draw a card.
- 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
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.
- 2021-02-05
You choose which cards you're exiling as Egon's triggered ability is resolving. If there are two or more cards in your graveyard at that time, you must exile two of them. You can't choose not to exile cards and sacrifice Egon instead to draw a card.