Devouring Greed
Sorcery — Arcane
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of Spirits.
Target player loses 2 life plus 2 life for each Spirit sacrificed this way. You gain that much life.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Masters 2015
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #16088
Devouring Greed can end the game on the spot — sacrifice your Spirit tokens, drain every opponent simultaneously, and win through pure life swing. King of the Oathbreakers makes this trivial by flooding the board with Spirit tokens as a byproduct of doing what the deck already wants to do.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
King of the Oathbreakers
King of the Oathbreakers generates a Spirit token every time you cast a Spirit or Sorcery spell, so by the mid-game Devouring Greed is sitting on a lethal pile of fodder — sacrifice them all, drain for double-digit life across three opponents, and close the table in one shot.
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 |
Devouring Greed is a Commander card through and through — the multi-opponent damage clause does almost nothing in 1v1 formats, but at a four-player table draining three opponents simultaneously doubles or triples its effective output. In Pauper it's legal but competes in a format where the Spirit synergy it demands rarely coheres quickly enough to matter. Legacy and Vintage have the card legal but no incentive to run it when faster, more consistent closers exist. Commander is the only format where Devouring Greed is a genuine threat.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Devouring Greed is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box before you'll find it listed individually. That price is stable; it's not a card chasing casual demand spikes, it's just cheap because supply is enormous and the card's home is a narrow slice of Spirit-tribal Commander decks.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.