First printed in Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (2022)
Creature — Orc Cleric
When this creature enters, you take the initiative.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, untap a creature you control. If you've completed a dungeon, untap all creatures you control instead.
3/3
- Illustrated by
- Joseph Weston
Legality
- Banned in
- Legacy, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (10)
- If the player with the initiative leaves the game, the active player takes the initiative at the same time that player leaves the game. If the active player is leaving the game or if there is no active player, the next player in turn order takes the initiative.
- If you aren’t in a dungeon when instructed to venture into Undercity, you will put Undercity into the command zone and move your venture marker to Secret Entrance (the first room).
- The initiative is a designation a player can have. A player with the initiative designation is said to “have the initiative.” The initiative carries two inherent rules. First, whenever a player takes the initiative, and at the beginning of the upkeep of the player with the initiative, that player ventures into Undercity. Second, whenever one or more creatures a player controls deal combat damage to the player who has the initiative, the first player takes the initiative. Also, some abilities will refer to having the initiative and provide other benefits.
- Only one player can have the initiative at a time. As one player takes the initiative, any other player that had the initiative ceases to have it.
- A player who currently has the initiative may take the initiative again. This causes that player to venture into Undercity again, but does not cause them to have multiple initiative designations.
- You cannot venture into Undercity unless instructed to do so, either because you have the initiative at the beginning of your upkeep or because you take the initiative. Notably, if you aren’t in a dungeon and an effect instructs you to venture into the dungeon (not venture into Undercity), you can’t start Undercity.
- There is no initiative in a game until an effect instructs a player to take the initiative. Once a player is instructed to do this, they have the initiative until another player takes the initiative.
- If you’re already in a dungeon when instructed to venture into Undercity, you move to the next room of that dungeon. If you are already in the last room, you will complete that dungeon and start Undercity. This is true whether you’re already in Undercity or any other dungeon.
- Similarly, when instructed to venture into Undercity, you can’t start a dungeon that isn’t Undercity.
- In a Two-Headed Giant game, if both players on a team deal combat damage to the player that has the initiative at the same time, the player with the initiative will choose the order of the triggered abilities. Then, as those abilities resolve, one team member takes the initiative (and ventures into Undercity) and then the other team member does the same. The last player to take the initiative keeps it until the initiative changes again.
Prices
MTGO price: 6.99 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
22 combos, the most popular first:
- Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite creature LTB…: Hostage Taker + Radiant Solar + Sefris of the Hidden Ways + White Plume Adventurer
- Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite creature LTB…: Phantom Steed + Radiant Solar + Sefris of the Hidden Ways + White Plume Adventurer
- Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite creature LTB…: Fiend Hunter + Radiant Solar + Sefris of the Hidden Ways + White Plume Adventurer
- Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite creature LTB…: Radiant Solar + Sefris of the Hidden Ways + Werefox Bodyguard + White Plume Adventurer
- Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite creature LTB…: Mardu Siegebreaker + Radiant Solar + Sefris of the Hidden Ways + White Plume Adventurer
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Delney, Streetwise Lookout + Preston, the Vanisher + Sefris of the Hidden Ways + Viscera Seer + White Plume Adventurer
- Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite creature LTB…: All-Fates Stalker + Radiant Solar + Sefris of the Hidden Ways + White Plume Adventurer
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Altar of Dementia + Delney, Streetwise Lookout + Preston, the Vanisher + Sefris of the Hidden Ways + White Plume Adventurer
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Carrion Feeder + Delney, Streetwise Lookout + Preston, the Vanisher + Sefris of the Hidden Ways + White Plume Adventurer
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Delney, Streetwise Lookout + Phyrexian Altar + Preston, the Vanisher + Sefris of the Hidden Ways + White Plume Adventurer
