Creature Bond
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, this Aura deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #26203
Creature Bond is a narrow aura that deals damage equal to a creature's toughness to its controller when it dies — a conditional payoff that requires your opponent's creature to actually leave the battlefield. Outside of niche sacrifice or death-trigger synergies, it asks too much and delivers too little to earn a slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Creature Bond is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the formats where it sees any real discussion are narrow. In Commander, the effect is too situational — you need a target creature to die, and even then the damage hits one player, not the table. Pauper is the one format where cost-efficient auras with unique effects can carve out a niche, but Creature Bond still lacks the proactive punch that makes auras worth the two-for-one risk. Across the board, it's a curiosity rather than a staple.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Creature Bond isn't currently available, but as a vintage card with minimal competitive demand, copies typically turn up in bulk bins or low-cost lots. It's not a card you need to hunt down urgently.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.