Alternative win conditions
Cards that say "you win the game" — no combat, no damage, just a condition to meet. Some are the centrepiece of a deck, some are a one-card win that nobody sees coming.
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| Card | Cost | Type | What it does | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thassa's Oracle | {U}{U} | Creature — Merfolk Wizard | When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equa… | $22.86 |
| 2 | Laboratory Maniac | {2}{U} | Creature — Human Wizard | If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead. | $2.41 |
| 3 | Hellkite Tyrant | {4}{R}{R} | Creature — Dragon | Flying, trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game. | $4.27 |
| 4 | Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness | {5}{R}{R} | Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur // Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Elder Dinosaur | Etali, Primal Conqueror: Trample When Etali enters, each player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among the nonland cards exiled this way without paying the… | $28.14 |
| 5 | Approach of the Second Sun | {6}{W} | Sorcery | If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life. | $6.01 |
| 6 | Mechanized Production | {2}{U}{U} | Enchantment — Aura | Enchant artifact you control At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted artifact. Then if you control eight or more artifacts with the same name as one another, you win the game. | $2.92 |
| 7 | Jace, Wielder of Mysteries | {1}{U}{U}{U} | Legendary Planeswalker — Jace | If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead. +1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card. −8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game. | $10.60 |
| 8 | Revel in Riches | {4}{B} | Enchantment | Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Treasures, you win the game. | $20.69 |
| 9 | Simic Ascendancy | {G}{U} | Enchantment | {1}{G}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a creature you control, put that many growth counters on this enchantment. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this enchantment… | $0.47 |
| 10 | Triskaidekaphile | {1}{U} | Creature — Human Wizard | You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly thirteen cards in your hand, you win the game. {3}{U}: Draw a card. | $0.78 |
| 11 | Twenty-Toed Toad | {3}{U} | Creature — Frog Wizard | Your maximum hand size is twenty. Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and draw a card. Whenever this creature attacks, you win the game if there are twenty or more counters on it or you ha… | $6.80 |
| 12 | Felidar Sovereign | {4}{W}{W} | Creature — Cat Beast | Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 40 or more life, you win the game. | $3.73 |
| 13 | Knuckles the Echidna | {2}{R}{R} | Legendary Creature — Echidna Warrior | Double strike, trample, haste Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. Treasure Hunter — At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control thirty or more artifacts, you win the game. | $22.25 |
| 14 | Halo Fountain | {2}{W} | Artifact | {W}, {T}, Untap a tapped creature you control: Create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token. {W}{W}, {T}, Untap two tapped creatures you control: Draw a card. {W}{W}{W}{W}{W}, {T}, Untap fifteen tapped creatures you control: You w… | $7.07 |
| 15 | Summon: Primal Odin | {4}{B}{B} | Enchantment Creature — Saga Knight | (As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Gungnir — Destroy target creature an opponent controls. II — Zantetsuken — This creature gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a … | $2.21 |
| 16 | Mirrodin Besieged | {2}{U} | Enchantment | As this enchantment enters, choose Mirran or Phyrexian. • Mirran — Whenever you cast an artifact spell, create a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token. • Phyrexian — At the beginning of your end step, draw a card, then discard a card… | $4.26 |
| 17 | Maze's End | Land | This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Return this land to its owner's hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If you control ten or more Gates with different names, you win the game. | — | |
| 18 | Test of Endurance | {2}{W}{W} | Enchantment | At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 50 or more life, you win the game. | $7.99 |
| 19 | Darksteel Reactor | {4} | Artifact | Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.) At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on this artifact. When this artifact has twenty or more charge counters on it, you win the game. | $0.35 |
| 20 | Liliana's Contract | {3}{B}{B} | Enchantment | When this enchantment enters, you draw four cards and you lose 4 life. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control four or more Demons with different names, you win the game. | $4.69 |
| 21 | Vraska, Golgari Queen | {2}{B}{G} | Legendary Planeswalker — Vraska | +2: You may sacrifice another permanent. If you do, you gain 1 life and draw a card. −3: Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less. −9: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a pla… | $5.57 |
| 22 | Luck Bobblehead | {3} | Artifact — Bobblehead | {T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Roll X six-sided dice, where X is the number of Bobbleheads you control. Create a tapped Treasure token for each even result. If you rolled 6 exactly seven times, you win the game. | $5.86 |
| 23 | Helix Pinnacle | {G} | Enchantment | Shroud (This enchantment can't be the target of spells or abilities.) {X}: Put X tower counters on this enchantment. At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are 100 or more tower counters on this enchantment, you win the game. | $8.15 |
| 24 | Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God | {U}{B}{B}{B}{R} | Legendary Planeswalker — Bolas | Nicol Bolas has all loyalty abilities of all other planeswalkers on the battlefield. +1: You draw a card. Each opponent exiles a card from their hand or a permanent they control. −3: Destroy target creature or planeswalker. −8: Each oppo… | $5.05 |
| 25 | Strixhaven Stadium | {3} | Artifact | {T}: Add {C}. Put a point counter on this artifact. Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, remove a point counter from this artifact. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, put a point counter on thi… | $0.40 |
| 26 | Call the Spirit Dragons | {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} | Enchantment | Dragons you control have indestructible. At the beginning of your upkeep, for each color, put a +1/+1 counter on a Dragon you control of that color. If you put +1/+1 counters on five Dragons this way, you win the game. | $3.12 |
| 27 | Chance Encounter | {2}{R}{R} | Enchantment | Whenever you win a coin flip, put a luck counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this enchantment has ten or more luck counters on it, you win the game. | $0.32 |
| 28 | Mayael's Aria | {R}{G}{W} | Enchantment | At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control if you control a creature with power 5 or greater. Then you gain 10 life if you control a creature with power 10 or greater. Then you win the game if you c… | $2.41 |
| 29 | Etrata, the Silencer | {2}{U}{B} | Legendary Creature — Vampire Assassin | Etrata can't be blocked. Whenever Etrata deals combat damage to a player, exile target creature that player controls and put a hit counter on that card. That player loses the game if they own three or more exiled cards with hit counters … | $0.74 |
| 30 | Door to Nothingness | {5} | Artifact | This artifact enters tapped. {W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target player loses the game. | $0.61 |
30 of 1072 cards the search scored for "alternative win conditions". Ordered by how much each card is played, among the cards that matched. Prices and legality come from Scryfall; the list was last refreshed on 2026-09-23.
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