Bitter Feud
Enchantment
As this enchantment enters, choose two players.
If a source controlled by one of the chosen players would deal damage to the other chosen player or a permanent that player controls, that source deals double that damage to that player or permanent instead.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander 2014
- Price
- $0.58
- EDHREC rank
- #14708
Bitter Feud makes two players deal double damage to each other — a political sledgehammer that can end lives at the table while you watch. The closest thing to an auto-include is Heartless Hidetsugu, where it converts that halving ping into a one-shot kill on the targeted player.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Bitter Feud actually lives — four players and a political ecosystem mean naming two threats and letting them mutually annihilate is a real line, not a fantasy. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but irrelevant; those formats end before five mana means anything, and there's no multiplayer context to weaponize the political angle. Oathbreaker shares the multiplayer structure that makes Bitter Feud interesting, so it earns a niche there in the same chaos-control shells that want it in Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Heartless HidetsuguBitter Feud
Near-infinite damage; Target opponent loses the game
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.58 bulk tier
At $0.58, Bitter Feud is firmly bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking about it. That price is stable because the demand ceiling is low: it's a narrow political piece that only a specific tier of Commander deck actually wants.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.