Haunting Misery
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X creature cards from your graveyard.
Haunting Misery deals X damage to target player or planeswalker.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Weatherlight
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #27731
Haunting Misery deals damage equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard — in the right deck, that's a lethal fireball at instant speed for three mana. It's a one-shot finisher, not a value engine, so it earns a slot only when your gameplan reliably stacks the graveyard fast.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Haunting Misery is a niche finisher in Commander, where graveyard-heavy strategies — self-mill, aristocrats, reanimator — can pile up enough creatures to make the damage number lethal; outside those archetypes it's a blank. In Pauper it sees occasional play as a top-end kill condition in common-legal self-mill shells, where the low card pool makes instant-speed burn of that magnitude more meaningful. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested — the formats have faster, more consistent kill conditions that don't require a loaded graveyard as a prerequisite.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Haunting Misery is firmly bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not any market demand. Supply is high and the card's narrow application keeps it there, so don't expect the price to move unless a high-profile graveyard deck makes it a genuine staple.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.