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Decaying Soil

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile a card from your graveyard.
Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this enchantment has "Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {1}. If you do, return that card to your hand."

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Odyssey
Price
$0.51
EDHREC rank
#24083
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Decaying Soil card art
Decaying Soil lets you cash in exiled creatures for repeated recursion triggers while generating mana through sacrifice — and with Phyrexian Altar in play, the engine is effectively free to run. If your deck is already moving bodies through the graveyard, this enchantment turns every death into a resource rather than a loss.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Decaying Soil lives — graveyard-based creature loops are the format's native habitat, and a one-mana enchantment that rewards you for doing what you're already doing is exactly the kind of redundancy those strategies want. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal but have no real home for it; the powered formats move faster than Decaying Soil's incremental value can keep up with, and dedicated graveyard decks there have more broken tools available. Outside Commander, this card doesn't have a stage.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.51 bulk tier

At $0.51, Decaying Soil sits firmly in bulk territory — an easy pickup that doesn't require any budget justification. That price reflects low demand outside Commander rather than low power, so it's unlikely to spike unless a high-profile graveyard commander pushes it into the spotlight.

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