Kardur, Doomscourge
Legendary Creature — Demon Berserker
When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.
Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.41
- EDHREC rank
- #980
Kardur, Doomscourge hits the table and immediately forces every opponent's creature to attack someone else this turn while draining a life from each attacker's controller — that's a political reset and a life swing stapled to a 3/4 deathtouch body for six mana. The cost is real, but Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant runs it in over 85% of decks for good reason: the forced-attack trigger lines up perfectly with goad payoffs.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant
Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant runs Kardur, Doomscourge in 85% of decks because both cards are built around the same engine — force creatures to attack, then extract value from every combat that isn't aimed at you.
Be'lakor, the Dark Master
Be'lakor, the Dark Master triggers off each demon entering the battlefield, and Kardur, Doomscourge is a demon that immediately reshapes the combat step, giving Be'lakor a relevant body that doubles as a chaos piece.
Thantis, the Warweaver
Thantis, the Warweaver forces all creatures to attack every turn, and Kardur, Doomscourge layers forced-attack direction and life drain on top of that mandatory swing — the two cards compound each other's pressure.
Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls grows and draws cards when opponents lose life outside their turn, and Kardur, Doomscourge's drain trigger fires once per attacking creature — in a multiplayer game that can be three or four life before anything even deals combat damage.
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 |
Kardur, Doomscourge is a Commander card through and through — the drain-on-attack trigger scales with the number of opponents and creatures at a multiplayer table in a way that simply doesn't translate to 1v1 formats. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but unplayable; six mana for a conditional rattlesnake effect is nowhere near competitive speed in those formats. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format where it could find a home in the right goad or forced-attack shell, but the card pool and game length rarely support it. Commander at 4-player tables is where Kardur, Doomscourge does its best work — one cast can redirect lethal combat damage, drain eight or more life, and leave a deathtouch blocker behind.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.41 bulk tier
At $0.41, Kardur, Doomscourge sits firmly in bulk territory — it's cheap enough to include in any Rakdos or Grixis deck that wants a combat-manipulation piece without a second thought. Bulk rare prices like this are stable; there's no meaningful reprint pressure or spike catalyst on the horizon, so it's safe to pick up whenever you need it.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.