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Cadaverous Bloom

Enchantment

Exile a card from your hand: Add {B}{B} or {G}{G}.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{G}
Color identity
BG
Rarity
rare
Set
Mirage
Price
$9.49
EDHREC rank
#20495
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Cadaverous Bloom card art
Cadaverous Bloom turns your hand into a mana battery — exile a card, get two mana of either color — and in black-green combo shells that engine is the whole game plan. It doesn't cantrip like Skullclamp, so it costs you cards to function, but the mana ceiling it creates is effectively unbounded with a stocked hand.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Cadaverous Bloom actually lives — the 100-card singleton format gives you the large opening hands and card-draw density needed to fuel it, and the singleton rule means you're not doubling up on a five-mana enchantment that does nothing without support. Legacy and Vintage legality is technically real, but five mana for a conditional mana source is unplayable in either format's landscape. Cadaverous Bloom is a Commander card through and through: it rewards the kind of explosive, one-turn combo kill that the format's longer games make room for.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Cadaverous Bloom occupies a narrow design space — exiling cards for mana — and nothing else does it cleanly at a lower price. Skirge Familiar is the closest functional replacement, discarding rather than exiling and producing black mana only, which matters for color flexibility but keeps the core "hand-to-mana" conversion intact. If the goal is simply explosive mana in a black-green shell, Selvala, Heart of the Wilds or Umbral Mantle packages can fill the same "generate absurd mana" role without the card-exile cost.

Price Context

Current price

$9.49 mid tier

At $9.49, Cadaverous Bloom sits in the mid tier — not a budget inclusion, but not a ceiling piece either. It's a reserved-list card with a narrow audience, which keeps the price stable rather than climbing; you're paying for scarcity and combo pedigree, not broad demand.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.