First printed in Hour of Devastation (2017)
Sorcery
Your life total becomes equal to your starting life total. Lands you control don't untap during your next untap step.
To the end, all Oketra did was for others.
- Illustrated by
- Howard Lyon
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Penny Dreadful, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (4)
- For your life total to become your starting life total (normally 20), you gain or lose the appropriate amount of life. For example, if your life total is 4 when Oketra’s Last Mercy resolves, it will cause you to gain 16 life; alternatively, if your life total is 25 when it resolves, it will cause you to lose 5 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly.
- No lands that you control will untap during your next untap step, even lands that aren’t tapped as this spell resolves. This includes lands that enter the battlefield after this spell resolves.
- In a Two-Headed Giant game, Oketra’s Last Mercy causes the team’s life total to become the team’s starting life total (normally 30), but only you actually gain or lose life.
- If more than one spell says that lands you control don’t untap during your next untap step, the effects will all wear off during that untap step. You’ll untap lands you control during your untap step after that one.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
9 combos, the most popular first:
- Each opponent loses the game: Oketra's Last Mercy + Vizkopa Guildmage + Wall of Blood
- Each opponent loses the game: Necropotence + Oketra's Last Mercy + Vizkopa Guildmage
- Each opponent loses the game: Blood Celebrant + Oketra's Last Mercy + Vizkopa Guildmage
- Each opponent loses the game: Mischievous Poltergeist + Oketra's Last Mercy + Vizkopa Guildmage
- Each opponent loses the game: Carrion Howler + Oketra's Last Mercy + Vizkopa Guildmage
- Each opponent loses the game: Ethereal Champion + Oketra's Last Mercy + Vizkopa Guildmage
- Each opponent loses the game: Kuro, Pitlord + Oketra's Last Mercy + Vizkopa Guildmage
- Each opponent loses the game: Oketra's Last Mercy + Spatial Binding + Vizkopa Guildmage
- Each opponent loses the game: Cavern Harpy + Oketra's Last Mercy + Vizkopa Guildmage