Candy Grapple
Instant
Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. If this spell was bargained, that creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn instead.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #15384
Candy Grapple gives a creature -3/-3 until end of turn and survives to the graveyard with a Food token tacked on — cheap interaction that replaces itself with a resource. At one black mana with an optional two-mana kicker, the floor is fine and the ceiling is a two-for-one that feeds sacrifice and lifegain synergies.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Candy Grapple competes in a format where -3/-3 until end of turn rarely kills the threats that matter, which limits its stock in most 100-card builds. The Food token does meaningful work in Korvold, Fae-Cursed King or Gyome, Master Chef lists that want cheap sacrifice fodder, but even there it's fringe. In Pauper it's legal and the modal flexibility is real, though dedicated removal and efficient black spells crowd it out. Across other 60-card formats, the effect is simply too small and too conditional to see play.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Candy Grapple is deep bulk — you're paying draft-chaff prices for a card with narrow constructed application. It won't hold or grow in value, but at this price the cost of testing it in a Food-focused Commander deck is essentially zero.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.