Humiliate
Sorcery
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. Put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #16985
Humiliate kills a creature and strips its controller's hand of anything with the same name — on-board removal plus a soft discard effect stapled to three mana at instant speed. In Commander, where singleton rules make the discard clause nearly irrelevant, this is just a three-mana removal spell competing against better options.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Humiliate occupies the low end of acceptable removal — three mana at instant speed is fine, but the discard rider almost never triggers in a singleton format, so you're paying for half a card. Constructed formats like Modern and Legacy have enough redundant-creature strategies that the discard clause occasionally strips a second copy, but those formats demand efficiency that three-mana sorcery-speed-adjacent removal rarely delivers. Pioneer is the friendliest home, where curve and card quality are softer, but even there Humiliate sits outside most competitive lists. Legacy and Vintage have enough raw power that Humiliate never makes the cut.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Humiliate is deep bulk — the price reflects exactly what it is: a fringe-playable removal spell with a conditional upside. Bulk commons and uncommons at this tier don't move unless a deck archetype suddenly demands them, and nothing in the current metagame points that direction for Humiliate.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.