Devouring Tendrils
Sorcery
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker you don't control. When the permanent you don't control dies this turn, you gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #16878
Devouring Tendrils kills a creature and gains you life equal to its toughness — real removal that also stabilizes your life total, all for two mana at sorcery speed. Green rarely gets clean creature removal this efficient, which makes it a genuine staple in any green deck that wants to trade up on mana.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Devouring Tendrils punches above its weight — two mana to answer any creature, with a life-gain rider that matters in a four-player game where your total gets chipped from every direction. The sorcery speed is the real limitation; you can't use it as a combat trick or counter a flash threat on the stack. In Modern and Pioneer it competes against faster, more flexible interaction, so it sees little competitive play there. Legacy and Vintage have even higher bars — Devouring Tendrils doesn't clear them. Commander is where this card belongs and where it earns its slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Devouring Tendrils is pure bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box or grabbing a playset for less than a pack. The price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile Commander deck pushes demand, so grab copies now and don't look back.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.