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The Golden Throne

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Legendary Artifact

40KWarhammer 40,000 Commander#157★rare
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Frame
2015
Illustrator
Games Workshop
CommanderLegalModernNot legalStandardNot legal
Format legality

Constructed

StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernNot legal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperNot legal

Commander

CommanderLegal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
Duel CommanderLegal
PreDHNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Tiny LeadersNot legal

Arena

AlchemyNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
BrawlNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
GladiatorNot legal

Other

PremodernNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulNot legal
Future StandardNot legal
Arcane Life-support — If you would lose the game, instead exile The Golden Throne and your life total becomes 1. A Thousand Souls Die Every Day — {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add three mana in any combination of colors.
Plays as:
Mana Fixer
Market · per finishtrend updated 10h ago · prices as of Oct 15, 2026
$20.00 low
Cheapest playable copy$10.09· across 2 printings· view the cheapest printing ›

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Surge Foil$25.76-0.2%30D
30D range$25.73to$26.07Since Feb 2024:H $26.07L $5.00

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  • Warhammer 40000 Commander Deck Forces of the Imperium Collectors Edition

    Deck · $444.22

    Foil Included

Combos

Rulings

7 · latest Oct 7, 2022
  • WotCOct 7, 2022

    For your life total to become 1, you will gain or lose the appropriate amount of life. For example, if your life total is -4 when The Golden Throne's ability applies, it will cause you to gain 5 life. Alternatively, if your life total is 20 when it applies (perhaps because you tried to draw a card from an empty library), you will lose 19 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly. Notably, this means that if you can't gain life or the life gain event is modified by another replacement effect, you might still have 0 or less life and still lose the game.

  • WotCOct 7, 2022

    If a spell or ability both destroys The Golden Throne and deals enough damage to you to reduce your life total to zero or less, you will still lose the game. This is because the state-based action that causes a player to lose the game due to having zero or less life won't be performed until after the spell or ability finishes resolving. At that point, The Golden Throne is no longer on the battlefield to apply its replacement effect.

  • WotCOct 7, 2022

    If an effect says that you can't lose the game, The Golden Throne's first ability doesn't apply.

  • WotCOct 7, 2022

    If an effect states that an opponent wins the game, The Golden Throne's effect doesn't apply.

  • WotCOct 7, 2022

    In a Two-Headed Giant game, The Golden Throne's ability set's the team's life total to 1, but only you gain or lose life.

  • WotCOct 7, 2022

    The Golden Throne's effect applies any time you would lose the game while it is on the battlefield, even if you're not losing due to your life total being 0 or less. If you would have lost the game because you tried to draw from an empty library, your life total becomes 1 and you won't lose again until you try to draw again and still can't do so. If you would have lost the game due to having ten or more poison counters, your life total becomes 1, but you will lose the game immediately afterward because you still have ten or more poison counters.

  • WotCOct 7, 2022

    The Golden Throne's effect does nothing if you concede the game. A player who concedes leaves the game.