Blight
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant land
When enchanted land becomes tapped, destroy it.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Masters Edition
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #23303
Blight is an enchantment that sits on a land and destroys it at end of turn — a one-mana land kill on a delay, which is weak when instant-speed options like Ghost Quarter exist. The tempo loss from telegraphing the destruction one full turn ahead makes Blight close to unplayable in any serious context.
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 |
Blight is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but being legal and being worth running are different things. In Commander, land destruction is already a politically fraught strategy, and spending a card to kill one land a turn later — giving the opponent a full extra turn to respond or float mana — is far too slow to matter. Legacy and Vintage have access to efficient, immediate land disruption that makes Blight irrelevant at those power levels. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: the delay is a fatal flaw when the format moves fast.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Blight isn't currently available, which likely reflects its negligible demand as a tournament-unplayable card. It's the kind of card that shows up in bulk bins, and there's no competitive pressure pushing its price upward.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.