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Festering March

Sorcery

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. Exile Festering March with three time counters on it.
Suspend 3—{2}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{B} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Future Sight
Price
$0.16
EDHREC rank
#21555
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Festering March card art
Festering March hits every creature on the board for -1/-1 — at instant speed, repeatedly, stapled to a land — and The Tenth Doctor unlocks the full loop by letting you cast it from the graveyard without losing life each time. The cost is real: five mana per activation and the life payment add up fast, so this is a build-around, not a freeroll.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is the natural home for Festering March — the format's slower pace gives you time to set up the land and the life payment, and the three opponents mean the board-wide -1/-1 effect scales in value. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but entirely off-meta; no competitive deck wants a five-mana land that drains you to fire a sweeper effect when faster answers exist. Festering March is a Commander card through and through.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.16 bulk tier

At $0.16, Festering March is deep bulk — you're not paying a premium for anything here. The price is unlikely to move unless a breakout Commander build pushes it into the spotlight, so pick up copies freely and don't worry about the buy-in.

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