Breathe Your Last
Instant
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You gain 1 life for each of its colors.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #6279
Breathe Your Last kills a creature and gains you life equal to its toughness — that life is the whole point. In Dina, Soul Steeper shells, every point of life gained translates directly into damage, so this removal spell is also a win-condition accelerant.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Dina, Soul Steeper
Dina, Soul Steeper turns every life point Breathe Your Last generates into a damage trigger, so a single removal spell can drain the table for four or five damage while clearing a blocker — that double-function is exactly why 14% of Dina decks run it.
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose similarly converts the life gain into opponent life loss, meaning Breathe Your Last acts as removal and a Vito trigger in one card — clean, efficient, and cheap enough to slot without a second thought.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Breathe Your Last earns its slot almost exclusively in life-gain-payoff decks — outside that archetype it's just a four-mana sorcery-speed kill spell, which is below rate. Pauper is where the card has the broadest potential appeal: four mana is still slow, but life-gain synergies exist at common and the removal spell doubling as a trigger source has real upside in the right build. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the competition at this mana value is simply too steep for a sorcery. Modern and Pioneer are moot; the card is legal in Modern but would never see play given the available alternatives.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Breathe Your Last is deep bulk — grab a copy out of a dollar box and don't think twice about it. Bulk removal with narrow synergy applications doesn't appreciate, so buy exactly as many as your life-gain decks need and move on.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.