Commander

Anikthea, Hand of Erebos

Global commander stats

All Abzan commanders Featured in Commander Masters

1767 Wins

3861 Losses

Overview

Summary

Anikthea, Hand of Erebos is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 5,644 recorded Playgroup games, winning 31% of them (1767–3861) at an Elo of 1,616, ranking #452 globally.

Wins average 10 turns, with 417304 damage dealt and 0.6 player kills per game on average.

Last full refresh 13 Nov 2026

Sources Scryfall · EDHREC · JSON API

Frequently Asked

What is Anikthea, Hand of Erebos's win rate?

Anikthea, Hand of Erebos has a 31% win rate across 5644 recorded Playgroup games (1767 wins, 3861 losses).

How long do winning games with Anikthea, Hand of Erebos take?

Wins with Anikthea, Hand of Erebos take on average 10 turns. Total tracked play time: 3 months.

How many decks use Anikthea, Hand of Erebos?

1,948 decks list Anikthea, Hand of Erebos as their commander on Playgroup, of which 1,154 have played at least one recorded game.

Anikthea, Hand of Erebos Magic: The Gathering commander card art

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Global rank

452

Wins by turn (avg.)

Elo rating

1616

Trend

Global Elo trend

Trend

Commander popularity trend

Averages

Misc. stats

Average damage per game 417304

Average commander damage per game 6

Average poison counters given per game 4

Average kills per game 0.6

Average turn length 2 minutes

No. decks for this commander 1948

No. decks with at least one game for this commander 1154

No. games played with this commander 5644

Total hours played 3 months

Community

Top 5 public decks

Rank	Elo	User	Games	Wins	Winrate
1	1665	Arak	18	10	56 %
2	1647	Darkfather	23	13	57 %
3	1645	Kaiern9	14	6	43 %
4	1624	coverman	20	12	63 %
5	1614	azza1695	10	5	50 %

Outcomes

How does this commander win?

When Anikthea, Hand of Erebos wins, 81.33% of wins come via combat across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Combat

81.33%

Alternative

6.92%

Commander Damage

4.33%

Non Combat Damage

4.33%

Combo

2.5%

Mill

0.5%

Poison

0.08%

Avg win turn 9.5 based on 1784 wins with recorded turn counts

Measured

Staples that win games for Anikthea, Hand of Erebos

Cards that raise this deck's measured win rate the most, compared with Anikthea, Hand of Erebos decks that leave them out.

+7.8 pp

Top card: Seal of Cleansing

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
1	Seal of Cleansing 58 games	+7.8 pp	58
2	Shadowy Backstreet 152 games	+2.7 pp	152
3	Overlord of the Balemurk 151 games	+2.0 pp	151
4	Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway Signature build 67 games · Signature build	+1.6 pp	67
5	Summon: Knights of Round Signature build 54 games · Signature build	+1.6 pp	54
6	Nature's Lore 83 games	+1.5 pp	83
7	Herald of the Pantheon 489 games	+1.4 pp	489
8	Parallel Lives 232 games	+1.0 pp	232
9	Teferi's Protection 188 games	+0.9 pp	188
10	Ondu Spiritdancer 482 games	+0.5 pp	482

Measured win-rate lift against decks on the same commander without the card, ranked by the 95% lower bound. How this is measured

Table position

Does seating order matter?

Anikthea, Hand of Erebos wins 37.3% of games from position 1 and 13.27% from position 5 across tracked games.

Seat 1

37.3% n=1547

Seat 2

33.92% n=1670

Seat 3

27.76% n=1284

Seat 4

22.14% n=831

Seat 5

13.27% n=113

Seat 6

16.67% n=18

Opening hands

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, Anikthea, Hand of Erebos wins 31.41% after 0 mulligans and 100.0% after 6 mulligans.

0 mulligans

31.41% n=2498

1 mulligan

28.93% n=764

2 mulligans

30.56% n=288

3 mulligans

35.29% n=85

4 mulligans

27.78% n=18

5 mulligans

44.44% n=9

6 mulligans

100.0% n=1

Player reports

How do players rate games with this commander?

Pilot rating

Pilots rate their own games with Anikthea, Hand of Erebos 3.6/5 on average, across 3666 self-reports.

3.6 / 5

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Opponent salt

When Anikthea, Hand of Erebos wins, opponents flag the game as salty 39.0% of the time across 1809 tracked wins.

39.0 \%

Head to head

Best and worst matchups

Opposing commanders with at least ten tracked games against Anikthea, Hand of Erebos. Pairs with fewer than 25 games are shown in italics; treat those as suggestive, not statistical.