Blind Obedience
Enchantment
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay 
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ravnica Remastered
- Price
- $6.01
- EDHREC rank
- #474
Blind Obedience locks every opponent's creatures and artifacts to enter tapped, then converts that soft control into a life-drain engine through Extort — two effects on one two-mana enchantment. Pair it with Kambal, Consul of Allocation and every spell your opponents cast is costing them life before they've even untapped their board.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kambal, Consul of Allocation
Kambal, Consul of Allocation already punishes noncreature spells; Blind Obedience stacks Extort on top so every spell you cast drains the table a second time, compounding the life-loss pressure into a closing engine.
Sorin of House Markov
Sorin of House Markov builds around vampires attacking early and often, and Blind Obedience's enters-tapped effect means opposing blockers are never ready — Sorin clears the path while Extort keeps the life totals where the deck wants them.
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade taxes spells and locks out uncounterable cheating effects; Blind Obedience extends that prison to the board itself, ensuring that anything which does resolve enters the battlefield unable to immediately answer Lavinia.
Karlov of the Ghost Council
Karlov of the Ghost Council needs repeated life-gain triggers to grow and gain removal power, and Blind Obedience delivers one every single time you cast a spell via Extort — it's one of the most reliable trigger sources in the deck.
Teysa, Opulent Oligarch
Teysa, Opulent Oligarch rewards token generation and life-gain simultaneously; Blind Obedience feeds the life-gain side through Extort while slowing opponents' boards, giving Teysa more time to accumulate the creatures her payoffs demand.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Blind Obedience is most at home — three opponents means Extort drains up to three life and gains you three per activation, and the enters-tapped clause is most punishing in a format full of haste creatures and combo pieces that need to attack immediately. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but essentially irrelevant; white has better prison options and Extort's payoff doesn't scale when you're racing for a turn-one or turn-two kill. Modern and Pioneer are broadly the same story — Blind Obedience is too slow and too creature-light in terms of its own body to see competitive play. Oathbreaker can use it for the same reasons Commander can, particularly in white-black life-drain shells.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben taxes noncreature spells and slows opponents' development for roughly the same price range, but trades the life-drain engine for pure disruption with a creature body. If you want the enters-tapped effect specifically, Imposing Sovereign or Urabrask the Hidden cover the slow-down half but drop the Extort entirely — acceptable substitutes in decks that don't care about recurring life-gain, but real downgrades in anything built around draining the table.
Price Context
Current price
$6.01 mid tier
At $6.01, Blind Obedience sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion but not so rare it's hard to find. It holds that price because demand is consistent across Orzhov and white-black Commander builds rather than driven by any single spike, which makes it a stable pickup rather than a gamble.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.