Death's Caress
Sorcery
Destroy target creature. If that creature was a Human, you gain life equal to its toughness.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dark Ascension
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #27909
Death's Caress destroys a creature and hands you its power as life gain — but six mana for a sorcery-speed removal spell is too slow for any format where better options exist. It's a bulk common that belongs in early precon replacements, not tuned lists.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Death's Caress is a budget placeholder — six mana at sorcery speed is survivable in casual pods where the life gain off a large creature actually matters, but it gets cut the moment you invest in Go for the Throat or Infernal Grasp. In Pauper, the common designation keeps it technically eligible, but the format's efficient removal suite makes it unplayable in any real list. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; no deck at those power levels tolerates six-mana sorcery removal. Death's Caress is a card that exists in the bulk bin to teach new players what good removal isn't.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Death's Caress sits firmly in bulk territory and will stay there — it has no competitive demand and no casual scarcity driving price upward. Buy it if you need a placeholder, but the upgrade path to better black removal costs almost nothing.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.