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Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper

Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper

Legendary Creature — Orc Shaman

Sek'Kuar wants a deck that sacrifices its own creatures to drain opponents' life. It also suits a deck that makes an army of small creatures and attacks with all of them.

  • Mana cost2 genericblackredgreen
  • Black, Red, Green ()
  • Power / toughness4 / 3
  • RarityRare

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 3/1 black and red Graveborn creature token with haste.

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Archetypes

Cards That Fit Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper

Picked for what they do in Sek'Kuar's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Sek'Kuar's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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Commanders that share the most with Sek'Kuar, and what they share.

Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryBRGPlayers write colors as letters: B for black, R for red, G for green.AristocratsAristocrats decks sacrifice their own creatures on purpose and profit every time one dies, often by draining life from each opponent. A sacrifice outlet, a card that lets you sacrifice whenever you like, decides when that happens.Open the Aristocrats pageDeath TriggerTriggers when a creature dies, whether it is this creature, one of yours or an opponent's. These are the cards that pay you in an Aristocrats deck: something else makes creatures die, and these decide what you get each time. Blood Artist, Solemn SimulacrumOpen the Death Trigger pageToken EngineMakes tokens again and again rather than once. A token is a creature or other permanent created by a card, with no card of its own. Something that makes one token gives you a body; something that makes them every turn gives you a board you can keep rebuilding after it is cleared. Grave Titan, Bitterblossom, OphiomancerOpen the Token Engine pageTokensToken decks fill the battlefield with small creatures made by their cards, then attack with all of them or make them all bigger at once. A token is a creature (or other object) that a card creates, not a card from your deck.Open the Tokens pageToken MakerCreates one or more tokens. Different cards make very different ones: creatures Grave Titan, Treasures Smothering Tithe, Clues Tireless Tracker or Food Gilded Goose. This is one of our largest tags, so pair it with an archetype or theme when you are hunting a specific kind.Open the Token Maker page