Bonds of Mortality
Enchantment
When this enchantment enters, draw a card.
: Creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Oath of the Gatewatch
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #9561
Bonds of Mortality gives your green deck a clean answer to indestructible and hexproof on the same card — for two mana at instant speed. It's the reason Legolas, Master Archer can actually close games against Avacyn or Blightsteel Colossus instead of bouncing arrows off them harmlessly.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Legolas, Master Archer
Legolas, Master Archer pings creatures as a core part of his damage-dealing engine, and Bonds of Mortality strips the hexproof and indestructible that would otherwise make those pings irrelevant — run it in this deck as a near-mandatory piece.
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 |
In Commander, Bonds of Mortality fills a real gap for green decks that lack efficient enchantment-based hexproof removal, and the draw stapled to it means you're never just spending two mana on a situational effect. Competitive tables regularly feature indestructible threats like Avacyn, Angel of Hope or Gods, and this answers them at instant speed before a board wipe resolves. In Legacy and Modern, the card is legal but has almost no presence — those formats have faster, more redundant ways to strip protection, and a sorcery-speed enchantment with no immediate impact on the board is a liability. Pioneer is similarly uncompetitive for it. Commander is where Bonds of Mortality earns its slot, and it earns it cleanly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Bonds of Mortality is deep bulk — pick it up without a second thought if the slot makes sense in your deck. Bulk rares with genuine utility tend to stay in this range indefinitely, so there's no urgency and no risk either way.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.