Is Their Name Is Death good in Commander?

Their Name Is Death in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Their Name Is Death hits every opponent simultaneously — each player sacrifices three creatures and loses life equal to the power of what died, all for five mana at sorcery speed. In any black deck that cares about mass sacrifice or graveyard count, this is a board wipe and a burn spell stapled together, and Imotekh the Stormlord decks in particular treat it as a core piece.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Imotekh the Stormlord

83.5% of decks · synergy 0.80

Their Name Is Death appears in 83% of Imotekh the Stormlord decks because it does exactly what Imotekh wants: forcing opponents to sacrifice creatures generates Necron Warrior tokens off his ability while draining life totals, turning a single sorcery into tokens, triggers, and a closing clock.

02

Trazyn the Infinite

53.5% of decks · synergy 0.50

Trazyn the Infinite can imprint Their Name Is Death from the graveyard and reuse its forced-sacrifice effect through Trazyn's copy ability, making it a repeatable threat rather than a one-shot board clear.

03

Dr. Eggman

29.6% of decks · synergy 0.28

Dr. Eggman's token and artifact-creature strategies mean opponents often have wide boards full of fodder, and Their Name Is Death punishes exactly that — stripping their resources while padding Eggman's damage math.

04

Megatron, Tyrant

29.1% of decks · synergy 0.28

Megatron, Tyrant runs Their Name Is Death as a synergistic board sweeper that fuels the graveyard count Megatron needs to convert artifacts and creatures into damage and dominance.

05

Missy

27.6% of decks · synergy 0.26

Missy values Their Name Is Death as a table-wide sacrifice effect that lines up with her control and reanimation gameplan, clearing paths and filling graveyards in one move.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	not legal
pioneer	not legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Their Name Is Death is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where it consistently earns a slot. In Legacy and Vintage the competition from faster, cheaper interaction makes a five-mana sorcery with no immediate board protection difficult to justify — formats where the game can end before you untap. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card format where it can shine, particularly in black sacrifice or aristocrats signatures that want the mass-drain effect. In Commander, though, the card operates exactly as designed: four-player tables mean three opponents each sacrificing three creatures, which translates to nine creatures off the board and potentially game-ending life loss in a single turn.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos don't replicate Their Name Is Death outright — they require you to sacrifice your own creatures first — but in aristocrats builds they generate similar forced-sacrifice volume over multiple turns for under $3 combined. If you want the direct mass-sacrifice without the life drain, Plaguecrafter and Fleshbag Marauder each cost pennies and can be blinked or reanimated, though each hits only one creature per opponent rather than three.

Price Context

Current price

$7.52 mid tier

At $7.52, Their Name Is Death sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel it in a budget build, cheap enough to be automatic in any deck that wants it. Given its near-universal inclusion in Imotekh lists and strong overlap with sacrifice and aristocrats strategies, the price reflects genuine demand rather than speculation.