Festering Evil
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
, Sacrifice this enchantment: It deals 3 damage to each creature and each player.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #22485
Festering Evil ends games — at the cost of ending your own creatures too, one -1/-1 counter per upkeep on everything you both control. It's the right card in decks built around undying, persist, or counter-manipulation, and the wrong card in everything else.
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 |
Festering Evil is a Commander card in practice — the multiplayer table amplifies its symmetrical punishment, and the longer games give you time to build a board that benefits from the drain. In a dedicated -1/-1 counter deck, the weekly attrition it deals out to opponents outpaces what it does to you. Legacy and Vintage have it on the legality list, but nothing there wants a five-mana enchantment that takes three turns to kill a Tarmogoyf.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Festering Evil is deep bulk — pick it up without thinking about it. Price movement on a card this narrow and this old is essentially flat; buy it for the effect, not for any financial upside.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.