Death Charmer

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Legality

Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Big Apple Highlander Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Freeform Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
PreDH Legal
Premodern Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Death Charmer

Creature — Worm Mercenary

Whenever Death Charmer deals combat damage to a creature, that creature's controller loses 2 life unless he or she pays (2).

legendofa on Rules Change to Combat

1 year ago

Icbrgr That's how it worked before. 1 damage from a deathtouch creature was considered lethal damage, and no further damage needed to be assigned. Before, and now, deathtouch reduced the amount of damage needed to kill a creature from "equal to toughness" to "1".

In your scenario, there wasn't ever a point where the deathtoucher needed to deal 4 damage to kill one of the walls. It needed to deal enough damage to kill it, and deathtouch defines that number as just 1. So the deathtoucher deals 1 damage to wall #1, killing it, then deals 1 damage to wall #2, killing it, too.

The big difference is that now non-deathtouchers can distribute their damage in the same way, but neither of the walls will be killed. This matters for something like Death Charmer's triggered ability. If it attacked into two 0/4 walls before, it could only deal combat damage to one of them, and the opponent loses 2 life or pays once. Now, it can deal 1 (nonlethal) damage to each of them, and the opponent has to pay or lose 2 life twice.

Caerwyn on Card creation challenge

7 years ago

Shifting Realities

Tribal Enchantment - Illusion

Creatures you control are Illusions in addition to their other creature types.

Illusions you control have "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."


There is currently only one Worm Mercenary in the game - Death Charmer - create it a friend.

Caerwyn on Does Mutiny work on creatures …

7 years ago

To add a few more abilities to the list, non-keyword abilities may also be implicated by Mutiny. Any ability that reads "whenever X deals damage" (ex. Putrid Warrior) or or "whenever X deals damage to a creature" (ex. Bellowing Fiend) will also trigger.

However, abilities that read "whenever X deals combat damage to a creature" (ex. Death Charmer) will not trigger due to Mutiny, as Mutiny does not result in combat damage.