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Curse of Bloodletting

Enchantment — Aura Curse

Enchant player
If a source would deal damage to enchanted player, it deals double that damage to that player instead.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Dark Ascension
Price
$1.55
EDHREC rank
#7719
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Curse of Bloodletting card art
Curse of Bloodletting doubles every point of damage dealt to one player — staple it on your primary target and every burn spell, drain trigger, and combat hit becomes twice as lethal. The four-mana cost is real, but in a Heartless Hidetsugu or Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor shell where you're already stacking damage multipliers, this is the card that turns a near-kill into a confirmed kill.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor

Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor

86.2% of decks · synergy 0.85

Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor is the natural home — she wants to stack curses on a single opponent and draw cards doing it, and Curse of Bloodletting turns every other damage-dealing curse on that player into a two-for-one in the lethality department.

02
Mathas, Fiend Seeker

Mathas, Fiend Seeker

13.1% of decks · synergy 0.13

Mathas, Fiend Seeker runs a Mardu curse package where opponents are already incentivized to attack the cursed player, and Curse of Bloodletting ensures that political pressure converts into actual threat elimination by doubling every hit the marked target absorbs.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Curse of Bloodletting is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where it does real work. In Legacy and Modern the four-mana investment for a conditional enchantment that doesn't win on the spot is never correct — those formats end the game before this comes online. Commander is where the math flips: multiplayer life totals are high, games are long, and a single Curse of Bloodletting on the player you're racing to kill warps the whole table's math in your favor.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$1.55 cheap tier

At $1.55, Curse of Bloodletting sits firmly in the budget tier — cheap enough to slot into any curse or burn Commander deck without a second thought. That price reflects its narrow competitive footprint, but within its niche it's one of the most efficient damage multipliers available, so the value at this cost is strong.

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