Domestication
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
At the beginning of your end step, if enchanted creature's power is 4 or greater, sacrifice this Aura.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Rise of the Eldrazi
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #22224
Domestication steals a creature with power 3 or less and hands it back the moment its power exceeds that threshold — useful, but conditional in a way that punishes you for buffing your own board. Four mana for a non-permanent answer is a fair rate in casual Commander, but the power-limit clause makes it a liability against anything that scales.
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, Domestication is a role-player in dedicated theft or control builds — it hits mana dorks, hatebears, and utility creatures reliably, but the power-3 ceiling means it blanks against most late-game threats. Constructed formats like Modern and Legacy have long since moved past four-mana enchantment-based removal, and Domestication sees essentially no competitive play there. Pioneer is similarly uninterested; the format's removal suite is efficient enough that a conditional steal on a fragile permanent is too slow. Oathbreaker, where games are faster and low-power creatures matter more, gives Domestication the most theoretical room outside Commander, but it still rarely shows up in lists.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Domestication is deep bulk — pick it out of a common box rather than buying a single. The price reflects its narrow application; it won't climb unless a popular Commander archetype makes theft enchantments a staple, and there's no current indicator of that.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.