Gloomwidow's Feast
Instant
Destroy target creature with flying. If that creature was blue or black, create a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #24847
Gloomwidow's Feast destroys a flying creature for three mana at instant speed — clean, unconditional removal for green, a color that almost never gets it. The catch is the target restriction: ground-only decks and anything without flyers on the other side of the table make this a dead card.
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 |
In Commander, Gloomwidow's Feast earns a slot in green decks that consistently face a table full of flying threats — Dragons, Angels, Sphinxes — where three mana to permanently answer a Consecrated Sphinx or Blightsteel Colossus is a genuine bargain. Outside of that context, green has better generalist removal options and the flying restriction hurts. In Pauper, the format's air is crowded enough that Gloomwidow's Feast sees occasional sideboard play in green stompy builds, though it rarely makes the main deck. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the formats move too fast and removal has to answer anything, not just flyers.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Gloomwidow's Feast is pure bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without thinking twice. It holds no monetary value and never will, but the cost to include it is essentially zero if the flying-hate angle fits your deck.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.