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Whip of Erebos
Price$8.30 – $8.90
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Whip of Erebos

{2}{B}{B}

Legendary Enchantment Artifact

LegalRank #711

Creatures you control have lifelink.

{2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Why is this card good?

Whip of Erebos does two jobs, and both are quietly excellent in mono-black and black-heavy decks. The static lifelink is the underrated part. In go-wide token, aristocrats, or aggressive creature decks, granting your whole board lifelink turns every attack and every combat trade into a life swing. That offsets black's life-payment costs (Phyrexian mana, Bolas's Citadel, Necropotence, painlands) and stabilizes you against faster decks. The reanimation ability is a recurring sac-engine enabler. Whip something back, get its ETB, attack with haste, then sacrifice it before it exiles for a death trigger and value — perfect with Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, or any "when a creature dies" payoff. It's repeatable removal-bait insurance against your best bombs being killed. Want it in: mono-black aristocrats, sacrifice, reanimator, and lifegain-matters builds. Skip it when: your creatures are small/irrelevant (lifelink does nothing meaningful) or you have few worthwhile reanimation targets — at four mana plus four to activate, it's slow without payoffs.

Related cards

Athreos, God of PassageWB

Black god enchantment with lifelink-adjacent recursion synergy.

Gray Merchant of AsphodelB

Great reanimation target for Whip's temporary return, drains life on ETB.

Sun TitanW

Strong creature to whip back for value triggers and beats.

Erebos, God of the DeadB

Black god indestructible enchantment supporting lifegain/death themes.

Liliana, Death's MajestyB

Reanimation engine in mono-black graveyard decks.

Necropolis FiendB

Graveyard-fueled flier ideal to reanimate temporarily.

Reassembling SkeletonB

Lifelink with Whip turns recurring bodies into life gain.

Massacre WurmB

Big ETB drain creature perfect for temporary whip reanimation.

Printings (4)

sldSecret Lair Drop · #2218R$8.90Buy
dscDuskmourn: House of Horror Commander · #159R$8.31Buy
cp2Fate Reforged Clash Pack · #5R$12.51Buy
thsTheros · #110R$8.30Buy

Played by these commanders

Winter, Cynical Opportunist100% of 1

Combos (2)

  • Volcano Hellion + Whip of Erebos

    → Infinite lifegain

  • Volcano Hellion + Whip of Erebos + Coalhauler Swine

    → Infinite damage, Infinite lifegain

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