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Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper

Legendary Creature — Orc Shaman

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 3/1 black and red Graveborn creature token with haste.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{2}{B}{R}{G}
Color identity
BGR
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander 2013
Price
$0.22
EDHREC rank
#15767
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Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper card art
Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper turns every non-token creature death into a 3/1 haste body, which means any sacrifice loop that can recur cheap creatures — Nether Traitor being the cleanest example — generates an endless stream of Graveborn tokens. The cost is four mana at 3BRG with no built-in protection, so he's a removal magnet before the engine ever spins up.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Kresh the Bloodbraided

Kresh the Bloodbraided

12.7% of decks · synergy 0.12

Kresh the Bloodbraided grows on every creature death and Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper guarantees those deaths keep producing board presence, so each sacrifice event simultaneously pumps Kresh and replaces the creature lost — the two commanders share a sacrifice-loop engine so efficiently that running one in the 99 of the other is nearly automatic.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where he's actually played is Commander. In Legacy and Vintage the four-mana cost and lack of immediate impact make him uncompetitive against the available threats in those card pools. Commander is his home: the 100-card singleton format gives sacrifice-value decks room to assemble the recursive loops Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper rewards, and the multiplayer nature of the format means the Graveborn tokens he generates rarely go to waste.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.22 bulk tier

At $0.22, Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper is deep bulk — a four-mana legendary with a narrow home doesn't command a premium. That price is stable; there's no pressure driving it up, but the card sees enough Commander play in dedicated sacrifice builds that it's unlikely to fall further.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.