Deathbellow War Cry
Sorcery
Search your library for up to four Minotaur creature cards with different names, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 8
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $1.07
- EDHREC rank
- #16106
Deathbellow War Cry puts four Minotaurs onto the battlefield from your library for eight mana — a single spell that can close a game on the spot. The cost is steep and the deck-building constraint is real, but Sethron, Hurloon General and Changeling Hero give the card a focused home where the payoff is simply enormous.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sethron, Hurloon General
Sethron, Hurloon General is the only commander who makes Deathbellow War Cry a staple — the deck is already built around stacking Minotaurs, so the War Cry becomes a one-card, end-the-game tutor target that populates the board and immediately triggers Sethron's ability on every creature it finds.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Deathbellow War Cry is a Commander card — full stop. The eight-mana cost and hard tribal requirement make it a non-starter in competitive Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where you need to win before turn four and can't afford to build around a single creature type. In Commander, where sorcery-speed seven- and eight-drops are normal and tribal synergies are rewarded over 99 cards, the War Cry functions as a near-instant win condition in any dedicated Minotaur shell. Outside of Sethron, Hurloon General, the card sees essentially no play, which is appropriate — it's narrow by design and doesn't pretend otherwise.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Deathbellow War CryChangeling HeroChangeling BerserkerChangeling Titan
Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB
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Current price
$1.07 cheap tier
At $1.07, Deathbellow War Cry is priced exactly where a narrow, format-specific tribal finisher should be. It's cheap enough to auto-include in every Sethron, Hurloon General build without a second thought, and the low price reflects its near-zero demand outside that one archetype.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.