Errant Minion
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay any amount of mana. This Aura deals 2 damage to that player. Prevent X of that damage, where X is the amount of mana that player paid this way.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #28339
Errant Minion is a slow, cumulative drain enchantment that taxes your opponent every upkeep for each blue or black mana they spend — but it costs four mana to deploy a card that does nothing the turn it enters. The payoff requires your opponent to actively use the relevant colors, making Errant Minion too conditional and too slow for most competitive tables.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Errant Minion is a fringe political piece in heavy blue-black metas, where the cumulative life drain can add up across multiple opponents over a long game — but four mana for a conditional enchantment with no immediate impact is a steep ask in a format that rewards efficiency. In Pauper, the commons card pool keeps the power ceiling low enough that slow attrition effects see occasional play, but Errant Minion still requires your opponent to cooperate by casting blue or black spells, which limits reliability. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the speed of those formats makes Errant Minion irrelevant before it ever triggers.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Errant Minion is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. Don't expect that price to move; the card sees almost no competitive demand, and supply is deep.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.