Drown in Filth
Sorcery
Choose target creature. Mill four cards, then that creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each land card in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- GRN Guild Kit
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #14990
Drown in Filth is a sorcery-speed -X/-X effect that scales with your graveyard count, making it a legitimate threat answer in self-mill and graveyard-centric Commander builds. Outside those shells it's too conditional to reliably trade up on power.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Drown in Filth is a niche card in Commander, where its ceiling is high in graveyard decks that fill the bin fast — think Golgari self-mill commanders that routinely hit 10+ cards in the yard by mid-game. In Pauper it's a legal common removal option, though the sorcery speed and graveyard dependency make it a fringe choice compared to unconditional black removal at the same cost. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage all have better options at two mana, and Drown in Filth sees no meaningful play in those formats. Run it in Commander if your deck mills itself aggressively; ignore it everywhere else.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Drown in Filth is firmly bulk — low acquisition cost, zero financial risk. It won't appreciate, but it doesn't need to: it's a cheap role-player you pick up for a specific graveyard build and don't think twice about.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.