Burden of Guilt
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
: Tap enchanted creature.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dark Ascension
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #21665
Burden of Guilt taps a creature for one mana at instant speed — clean, repeatable, and attached to a permanent that stays on the board. The catch is the enchant-creature setup cost: it does nothing until you have a valid target, and it dies with the creature.
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, Burden of Guilt earns its slot in tap-matters and Azorius control shells where locking down a commander or blocker every turn is worth the one-mana-per-activation investment. Pauper is its most competitive home — the common-only cardpool is thin on repeatable tap effects, and one mana at instant speed is a real rate there. Legacy and Vintage have no interest; superior answers exist at every point on the curve. Burden of Guilt is legal in Oathbreaker and functions identically to its Commander role, best on a stax-oriented planeswalker.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Burden of Guilt sits firmly in bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not budgeting for it. Price stability is a non-issue; it's already at floor, and niche demand from Pauper players keeps it in print without driving the number anywhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.