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Lethal Vapors

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters, destroy it.
{0}: Destroy this enchantment. You skip your next turn. Any player may activate this ability.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Scourge
Price
$6.76
EDHREC rank
#13310
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Lethal Vapors card art
Lethal Vapors shuts down all creature spells indefinitely — opponents can break it, but only by skipping their entire next turn, making it a recursive stax piece that punishes anyone who needs creatures more than you do. The catch is symmetry: it costs you creatures too, so it earns its slot in decks that either go creatureless or actively want opponents paying that skip-a-turn tax, like Mogis, God of Slaughter, where every skipped turn is a free trigger.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Mogis, God of Slaughter

Mogis, God of Slaughter

10.3% of decks · synergy 0.10

Mogis, God of Slaughter turns every skipped turn into a free drain trigger — opponents who sacrifice creatures to Mogis and then skip turns to escape Lethal Vapors are bleeding life twice over, making the two cards a tight lock in attrition-based Rakdos stax.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Lethal Vapors is a Commander card through and through — the skip-a-turn clause is most punishing in a four-player game where the cumulative pressure of multiple opponents paying the tax compounds fast. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but practically invisible; the formats move too fast for a four-mana enchantment with no immediate board impact to compete with countermagic and combo. Commander is where the math works: one player skipping a turn to break it is still a win for you, especially in creatureless or near-creatureless shells that ignore the symmetry entirely. Oathbreaker sees it occasionally in similar stax lists, though the smaller game size dulls the multiplayer advantage.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Lethal VaporsTeferi's ProtectionTithe Taker

Lethal VaporsTeferi's ProtectionTithe Taker

Skip all your future turns, causing your opponents to eventually draw from an empty library and lose the game; You have protection from everything; Your life total can't change; Lock

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

There's no clean budget replacement for what Lethal Vapors does — the recursive skip-a-turn clause is unique — but Torpor Orb ($3) and Hushbringer ($1) cover the enter-the-battlefield half of the problem for far less. If the goal is taxing creature-heavy opponents, Contamination pairs with a sacrifice outlet to lock down mana entirely, though it demands a steady creature supply of its own.

Price Context

Current price

$6.76 mid tier

At $6.76, Lethal Vapors sits in mid-tier pricing for a niche stax piece with a small target audience — it's not expensive enough to be a barrier, but it's not cheap enough to throw in speculatively. Demand is narrow and stable, tied almost entirely to Mogis builds and creatureless Commander lists, so the price is unlikely to move dramatically in either direction.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.