Drop of Honey
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy the creature with the least power. It can't be regenerated. If two or more creatures are tied for least power, you choose one of them.
When there are no creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Arabian Nights
- Price
- $469.84
- EDHREC rank
- #23593
Drop of Honey is a one-mana repeating removal engine that forces your opponents to sacrifice their smallest creature every upkeep — the board control is relentless and requires no additional investment beyond the initial cast. At a single green mana, nothing else in Magic delivers that density of attrition.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Drop of Honey is a pillar of green enchantment-based stax and attrition builds — it single-handedly suppresses token swarms and keeps small utility creatures off the table for the rest of the game. Legacy allows it, but the format is too fast and creature-light in the relevant blue shells for a slow enchantment to pull weight, so it sees nearly zero play there. Vintage is similarly legal but even less hospitable to a card that doesn't affect the stack or the graveyard in a meaningful way. Oathbreaker is where Drop of Honey has niche appeal, particularly in one-green-mana builds that want cheap, durable interaction.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Porphyry Nodes does a nearly identical job for a fraction of the price, destroying the smallest creature each upkeep with the same board-presence logic — the key trade-off is that it destroys itself once no creatures are in play, where Drop of Honey simply waits. Ulvenwald Tracker and Spreading Plague attack similar problems from different angles, but nothing fully replicates the set-it-and-forget-it attrition engine that Drop of Honey provides.
Price Context
Current price
$469.84 premium tier
At $469.84, Drop of Honey sits firmly in the premium tier — driven almost entirely by its age, scarcity, and the absence of any reprint. Whether that price holds depends entirely on whether Wizards decides to reprint it, which would crater the value immediately, so this is a card you buy to play, not to speculate on.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.