Is Ezuri's Predation good in Commander?

Ezuri's Predation in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Ezuri's Predation clears the board and replaces every creature it kills with a 4/4 beast token in your favor — all on one sorcery. Eight mana is steep, but the swing in board state is so lopsided that Slinza, the Spiked Stampede runs it in over 65% of decks for a reason.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Slinza, the Spiked Stampede

65.3% of decks · synergy 0.60

Slinza, the Spiked Stampede creates tokens whenever creatures with counters fight or deal damage, so every fight trigger from Ezuri's Predation layers directly into Slinza's engine — you're not just wiping the board, you're fueling a second wave of token production on the same turn.

02

Esix, Fractal Bloom

67.3% of decks · synergy 0.60

Esix, Fractal Bloom redirects the first token you create each turn into a copy of any creature on the battlefield, so the flood of 4/4 beasts that Ezuri's Predation generates hands Esix a string of copy opportunities — one sorcery can restock the board with whatever threat is most dangerous in that moment.

03

Ruxa, Patient Professor

63.3% of decks · synergy 0.52

Ruxa, Patient Professor buffs creatures with no abilities, and the vanilla 4/4 beasts that Ezuri's Predation creates are exactly the kind of blank-text bodies that benefit most — the wipe doubles as a creature production spell that feeds directly into Ruxa's power bonus.

04

Witherbloom, the Balancer

53.4% of decks · synergy 0.49

Witherbloom, the Balancer gains life and drains opponents whenever creatures die, so the mass fighting from Ezuri's Predation can represent a huge life swing in a single activation — every creature on both sides that dies off a fight trigger is a Witherbloom proc.

05

Adrix and Nev, Twincasters

50.9% of decks · synergy 0.43

Adrix and Nev, Twincasters double every token you create, so the already-generous wave of 4/4 beasts that Ezuri's Predation produces becomes twice as large under their static ability — a board wipe that normally replaces threats becomes an overwhelming token flood.

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	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Commander is where Ezuri's Predation actually belongs — multiplayer boards are wide enough that fighting every opposing creature simultaneously is a one-card reset button that also builds your own army. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but practically irrelevant: eight mana at sorcery speed doesn't survive contact with those formats' interaction density, and the token payoff means nothing when you're dead before you untap. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's token-friendly, slower-paced DNA that Ezuri's Predation can find a home there too, especially under a planeswalker that generates creatures. Everywhere else, it's not legal, and that's fine — this is a Commander card through and through.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.55 cheap tier

At $2.55, Ezuri's Predation sits in the cheap tier and punches well above that price point for what it does on the board. Given its 65%+ inclusion rate in some of the most popular token commanders, that price is unlikely to drift much lower — it's already widely available and shows no signs of spiking.