Benediction of Moons
Sorcery
You gain 1 life for each player.
Haunt (When this spell card is put into a graveyard after resolving, exile it haunting target creature.)
When the creature this card haunts dies, you gain 1 life for each player.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Guildpact
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #24059
Benediction of Moons drains each opponent for 1 at sorcery speed, then can be bought back for its foretell cost to do it again — the entire engine costs next to nothing across two turns. It's a reliable life-drain loop for decks that want repeated incremental damage, and nearly free to slot in.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Benediction of Moons earns its slot in aristocrats and life-drain builds that want repeatable pings — hitting three or four opponents multiplies the effective damage well beyond what the mana investment suggests. In Pauper it's legal but too slow and low-impact for a format where tempo and card efficiency are at a premium. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a sorcery-speed one-damage effect regardless of how cheap the foretell loop is. Benediction of Moons is a Commander card first and a Pauper curiosity at best.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Benediction of Moons sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card itself. Bulk commons that see play in only one format rarely climb in price, so grab a copy if the deck wants it and don't think twice about it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.