Kaervek's Hex
Sorcery
Kaervek's Hex deals 1 damage to each nonblack creature and an additional 1 damage to each green creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Mirage
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #29438
Kaervek's Hex destroys all creatures with a counter on them — a selective board wipe that hits proliferate targets, evolve creatures, +1/+1 synergy boards, and planeswalker-adjacent threats all at once. The cost is specificity: against a deck with no counters in play, it does nothing.
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 |
Commander is where Kaervek's Hex earns its slot, because counter-laden boards are everywhere — Atraxa decks, Simic stompy piles, and any table running planeswalkers that just ticked up all become clean targets. The selective nature is a real upside in a four-player game: you wipe the counters-matter player while leaving your own board intact. In Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but far too narrow and conditional to see play — those formats kill you before a situational wipe matters. Oathbreaker follows the Commander logic; if the meta has proliferate or loyalty-counter strategies, Kaervek's Hex is live.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Kaervek's Hex is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking. That price reflects low demand rather than low power; in the right meta it punches above its cost, but don't expect it to appreciate.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.