Heart of Bogardan
Enchantment
Cumulative upkeep 
(At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
When a player doesn't pay this enchantment's cumulative upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls, where X is twice the number of age counters on this enchantment minus 2.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Weatherlight
- Price
- $0.74
- EDHREC rank
- #29073
Heart of Bogardan deals damage equal to the number of cards in the opponent with the most cards in hand — potentially 7 or more damage to a single player, repeated every upkeep for five turns. The five-mana cost and win-more dependency on opponents' hand sizes make it a fringe card at best.
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 |
Heart of Bogardan is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees meaningful play in almost none of them. In Commander, the card punishes hand-size-matters opponents and can accumulate meaningful damage over multiple upkeeps in a slow game, but five mana for conditional burn with no immediate board impact is a hard sell when the format demands efficiency. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for a five-mana enchantment that doesn't affect the board the turn it resolves — Heart of Bogardan simply doesn't survive long enough to recoup its cost in those formats.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.74 bulk tier
At $0.74, Heart of Bogardan sits firmly in bulk territory, which is an accurate reflection of its playability. The price is unlikely to move without a dedicated hand-size archetype pushing into competitive relevance, so there's no meaningful upside to holding copies beyond personal use.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.