Feast of Flesh
Sorcery
Feast of Flesh deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named Feast of Flesh in all graveyards.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Coldsnap
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #30198
Feast of Flesh gains you life equal to a target creature's power — immediate, unconditional, and free at one mana. It's a bulk common for a reason: lifegain without a secondary effect is rarely worth a card slot in Commander.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Feast of Flesh is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the formats where it sees real play are essentially none of them. In Pauper it sits below the power threshold — Basilisk Collar and Vault Skirge do more structural work for life-gain archetypes. In Commander, one-shot lifegain spells without upside are almost always the first cuts when tuning a list. The only context where Feast of Flesh earns a slot is a dedicated lifegain-matters Commander shell with a commander like Lifeseeker that cares about the raw number, and even then there are stronger options.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Feast of Flesh is deep bulk — a throw-in at any trade table. Bulk commons don't appreciate; this one holds its floor only because floor is essentially zero.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.