Last Kiss
Instant
Last Kiss deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Rise of the Eldrazi
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #26176
Last Kiss trades one-for-one at sorcery speed for three mana — acceptable in formats where the two life gain matters, underwhelming everywhere else. It's a role-player in lifegain-matters decks, not a general-purpose removal spell.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Last Kiss earns a slot only if your deck cares about life totals — Lifegain commanders like Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose get real mileage from the two life, but everyone else should run cheaper or more flexible removal instead. In Pauper, the common-legal removal suite is competitive enough that Last Kiss rarely makes the cut over instant-speed options. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest — the format's removal bar is too high for a sorcery-speed Sorcery at three mana. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: synergy-dependent, not a staple.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Last Kiss is deep bulk — you'll find it in bulk bins or pick it up as a throw-in without thinking twice. Bulk commons don't appreciate unless a new commander breaks them wide open, and nothing on the horizon makes that likely here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.