Homicidal Seclusion
Enchantment
As long as you control exactly one creature, that creature gets +3/+1 and has lifelink.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Avacyn Restored
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #24914
Homicidal Seclusion hands a lone creature +2/+0 and lifelink for three mana — an enchantment that turns any voltron or singleton-creature shell into a sustained life-gain engine. The catch is real: the moment you control a second creature, the effect vanishes, so it demands a deck that actively wants to stay at one.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Homicidal Seclusion is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only matters in Commander. In eternal formats like Legacy and Vintage, five-mana enchantments that require a specific board state don't compete — the format's efficiency floor is simply too high. In Commander, the card finds its home in voltron strategies where the commander is the only creature you intend to control for long stretches: Uril, the Miststalker, Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale, or any hexproof-heavy aura build that avoids go-wide lines. Oathbreaker is a reasonable secondary home for the same reasons — smaller life totals make the lifelink swing more decisive, and planeswalker-plus-signature-spell lists often run lean creature suites.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
Homicidal Seclusion sits at $0.05 — deep bulk, the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy. At that price it holds essentially no monetary value, but if the deck calls for it, the cost of entry is negligible.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.