Curse of the Forsaken
Enchantment — Aura Curse
Enchant player
Whenever a creature attacks enchanted player, its controller gains 1 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander 2013
- Price
- $1.27
- EDHREC rank
- #16850
Curse of the Forsaken gives the enchanted player's attackers +1/+1, which means you're handing ramp to whoever you slap it on — the payoff is that you draw a card when that player is eliminated. It's a political enchantment that only pays out if someone else does your dirty work, making it a fringe inclusion outside dedicated curse or politics builds.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Curse of the Forsaken is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through — the elimination trigger is meaningless in 1v1 formats where no one gets "eliminated" mid-game in a way that fires it reliably. In Commander, it slots into curse-tribal decks helmed by commanders like Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor or Siona, Captain of the Pyleas-adjacent politics builds, where stacking multiple curses on a single threat-player can accelerate their removal by the table. Outside that specific niche, the card draw payoff is too conditional to justify a slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.27 cheap tier
At $1.27, Curse of the Forsaken sits in the bulk-rare tier where the price reflects its narrow demand. It won't appreciably lose value, but it's not a card you're buying speculatively — you pick it up because you're building curse tribal, full stop.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.