Frantic Strength
Enchantment — Aura
Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has trample.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #10162
Frantic Strength puts +3/+3 on a creature until end of turn for one green mana — that's an outsized pump at instant speed that threatens lethal out of nowhere. The cost is that it's a one-shot spell with no lasting board impact, so it earns its slot only in decks that close games through combat damage quickly.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Frantic Strength is legal everywhere but sees real play almost exclusively in Pauper, where one-mana pump spells that threaten lethal on a wide-open board are a core part of Stompy and infect strategies. In Modern and Pioneer the bar is higher — Become Immense, Mutagenic Growth, and Scale Up all do more for similar or zero mana, so Frantic Strength doesn't make the cut. In Commander the card is too narrow: one-shot pump rarely changes a multiplayer game, and the formats that care about commander damage or voltron generally want equipment or auras that stick. Pauper is where Frantic Strength actually belongs.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Frantic Strength is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. That price is stable because demand is narrow and supply is plentiful; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.