Living Death
Living Death: Sorcery, Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}{B}
- Mana value
- 5
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
- Released
- 2025-04-11
- Collector number
- 185
- Artist
- Mark Winters
- Commander rank
- 462 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Living Death
Living Death is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black sorcery from Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC), a Commander product released in April 2025. It is collector number 185 in that set, with art by Mark Winters. It costs {3}{B}{B} (three generic and two black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and PreDH. It has been printed in 16 sets, from Tempest (1997) to Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (2025). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $6.21 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $6.21 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Living Death by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
Other printings of Living Death
Living Death has been printed in 16 sets. The 12 most recent other printings are listed here, newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) #373 | Mythic | 2024 |
| Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) #203 | Rare | 2023 |
| Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K) #202 | Rare | 2022 |
| Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K) #202★ | Rare | 2022 |
| The List (PLST) #A25-96 | Rare | 2019 |
| Commander Anthology Volume II (CM2) #68 | Rare | 2018 |
| Masters 25 (A25) #96 | Rare | 2018 |
| Tempest Remastered (TPR) #109 | Mythic | 2015 |
| From the Vault: Annihilation (V14) #8 | Mythic | 2014 |
| Vintage Masters (VMA) #126 | Rare | 2014 |
| Commander 2011 (CMD) #88 | Rare | 2011 |
| Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition (DDE) #31 | Rare | 2010 |
Official rulings
Two official rulings apply to Living Death, newest first.
- Only cards exiled by Living Death's first instruction are put onto the battlefield. If a replacement effect (such as that of Leyline of the Void) causes any of the sacrificed creatures to be exiled instead of put into a graveyard, those cards aren't returned to the battlefield.
- As Living Death resolves, all players exile their creature cards from graveyards at the same time. Then all players sacrifice all creatures they control at the same time. Then all players put all creatures they exiled onto the battlefield at the same time.
Similar cards
Other sorcery cards with a black colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Living Death is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.