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Epic Struggle

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more creatures, you win the game.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Judgment
Price
$7.91
EDHREC rank
#13540
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Epic Struggle card art
Epic Struggle wins the game outright the moment you untap with 20 or more creatures — no combat step required, no player priority to race through. A single spell like Storm Herd can put you over that threshold immediately, which makes this enchantment a genuine one-card threat in any token-doubling shell.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Epic Struggle is a Commander card through and through — the 20-creature threshold is trivially reachable in a format where token strategies routinely produce dozens of bodies, and the four-mana enchantment gives you a persistent alternate win condition that survives board wipes aimed at creatures. Legacy and Vintage both allow it but ignore it entirely; the formats are too fast and too hostile to a card that does nothing until your next upkeep. Oathbreaker can support it in the same token shells that work in Commander, just with a smaller card pool. Anywhere outside those two forty-card formats, Epic Struggle simply isn't legal.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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The MycotyrantMorality ShiftEpic Struggle

The MycotyrantMorality ShiftEpic Struggle

Near-infinite creature tokens; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinitely large creature; Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Epic Struggle's closest spiritual replacement is Hellrider or a combat-damage finisher — something that converts a wide board into a win without requiring an upkeep check — but nothing replicates the exact "20 creatures and you win" clause at a lower price. If the goal is a token-count payoff rather than an alternate win condition specifically, Craterhoof Behemoth does more immediate work, though it trades the hard-to-interact-with enchantment plan for a creature that dies to removal.

Price Context

Current price

$7.91 mid tier

At $7.91, Epic Struggle sits in mid-tier pricing for a casual-only enchantment with no competitive demand propping it up. The price reflects genuine scarcity rather than competitive demand, and it's unlikely to fall much further — but it's also not a card you'd expect to spike without a major reprint or a breakout Commander release.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.