Dwindle
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -6/-0.
When enchanted creature blocks, destroy it. (The attacking creature remains blocked.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Core Set 2019
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #26577
Dwindle turns any creature into a vanilla 0/1 for two mana at instant speed — the threat is neutralized on the spot, and the enchantment sticks until someone spends removal on it. It's a clean, cheap answer that punches above its cost, especially in formats where creatures win through activated abilities or keywords.
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 |
In Commander, Dwindle earns its slot as a low-cost, permanent answer to a problematic creature — shutting off Ragavan's dash, a Thassa's Oracle trigger setup, or a general that wins through a keyword. Pauper is where Dwindle sees its most competitive reps, since the card pool is shallow enough that two-mana permanent debuffs are genuinely among the better blue answers available. In Modern and Legacy the card is legal but irrelevant — tempo decks have cheaper counters and hard removal, and a 0/1 that survives is still a blocker your opponent can sacrifice or recur. Pioneer sits in a similar spot: the format has enough efficient removal that Dwindle rarely beats the alternatives.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Dwindle is pure bulk — you're not buying it for value, you're buying it because it does a job for essentially nothing. That price is stable by floor; there's nowhere lower to go, and no spike coming unless a constructed format dramatically shifts.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.