Dusk Mangler
Creature — Horror
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature, discard a card, or pay 4 life.
When this creature enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice, discards a card, and loses 4 life.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #9877
Dusk Mangler hits every opponent for a forced discard and a life loss trigger the moment it enters — seven mana buys a table-wide disruption burst, not a single-target effect. The cost is steep enough that you need either a reanimation engine or a dedicated big-mana shell to make it consistent, and Araumi of the Dead Tide delivers exactly that.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Araumi of the Dead Tide
Araumi of the Dead Tide uses Encore to create three copies of Dusk Mangler at end of turn, stacking three separate enter-the-battlefield triggers per opponent and draining the table of cards and life simultaneously before the tokens exile themselves at cleanup.
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 |
Dusk Mangler is a Commander card through and through — the ETB triggers each opponent separately, which means the effect scales directly with the number of players at the table and is worth far more in a four-player pod than in any 1v1 context. In Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer it's a seven-mana do-nothing-on-board threat that trades a card and your entire turn for a single discard and a life loss, which no competitive deck wants. Commander is the only format where the math actually works in its favor, especially in reanimator or flicker builds that can loop the trigger.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Dusk Mangler is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking twice. Bulk rares rarely climb unless a new commander or combo pushes them into demand, and nothing about its current trajectory suggests that's coming.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.