Kiss of Death
Sorcery
Kiss of Death deals 4 damage to target opponent or planeswalker. You gain 4 life.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Portal Second Age
- Price
- $0.57
- EDHREC rank
- #29861
Kiss of Death drains three life from target opponent and draws you three cards — six points of total value stapled to a five-mana sorcery. The cost is what buries it: five mana for a symmetry-free effect that doesn't affect the board is simply too slow for most tables.
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 |
Kiss of Death lives and dies in Commander, where its single-target drain and three-card draw map cleanly onto life-total pressure and card advantage in a multiplayer game. The problem is five mana for a sorcery that touches one opponent and leaves the board state unchanged — in a format where Harmonize costs four and hits all three opponents equally, Kiss of Death needs a dedicated reason to run it. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; no constructed format running forty cards has any interest in this rate. Oathbreaker is legal and the smaller life totals make the three-drain slightly more meaningful, but the card-draw is still competing against cheaper options.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.57 bulk tier
At $0.57, Kiss of Death is firmly bulk — this is a card you pick out of a dollar bin, not one you track down. Bulk rares with narrow applications rarely climb, and nothing about this card's power level suggests it breaks that pattern.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.