Betrayal
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature an opponent controls
Whenever enchanted creature becomes tapped, you draw a card.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Visions
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #13465
Betrayal sits on a tapped creature and hands you a card every time that creature's controller attacks with it — a cheap, repeatable draw engine stapled to your opponent's best threat. At one blue mana for a permanent effect, the payoff is real, but the ceiling is entirely dependent on whether your opponents are swinging into you with the enchanted creature.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Betrayal is a political tool as much as a draw spell — slap it on an opponent's commander and you're incentivizing them to attack elsewhere while you cash in on cards every time they do. Legacy and Vintage have no reason to run it; one card per attack is glacial next to those formats' actual draw engines. Pauper is the one competitive format where Betrayal earns a second look, since card advantage at one mana is real currency in slower blue control shells. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: point it at a threatening oathbreaker and the math starts working in your favor.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Betrayal is deep bulk — you're not paying for scarcity, you're paying for cardboard. It holds that floor comfortably; there's no spike coming, but there's also no reason it gets cheaper.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.