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Maha, Its Feathers Night

Legendary Creature — Elemental Bird

Flying, trample
Ward—Discard a card.
Creatures your opponents control have base toughness 1.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
mythic
Set
Bloomburrow
Price
$33.49
EDHREC rank
#1959
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Maha, Its Feathers Night card art
Maha, Its Feathers Night enters and immediately shrinks every other creature's toughness by a number equal to your opponents' graveyards — turning a board wipe into a passive, scalable debuff that stacks with any commander that pings or damages incrementally. Commanders like Kaervek, the Spiteful and Massacre Girl, Known Killer treat that toughness reduction as free kills, making Maha one of the most efficient enablers in black-based attrition strategies.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Massacre Girl, Known Killer

67.4% of decks · synergy 0.63

Massacre Girl, Known Killer's triggered ability puts -1/-1 counters on creatures whenever something dies, and Maha, Its Feathers Night pre-shrinks toughness so that even a single death can cascade into a board-clearing chain. The combination turns modest board states into clean sweeps.

02
Toxrill, the Corrosive

Toxrill, the Corrosive

65.1% of decks · synergy 0.62

Toxrill, the Corrosive slugs every opponent's creature with a -1/-1 counter at each end step, and Maha, Its Feathers Night compounds that clock by shaving toughness globally based on graveyard size. Creatures that survive Toxrill's counter often don't survive Maha's passive reduction.

03
Sephiroth, Planet's Heir

Sephiroth, Planet's Heir

58.0% of decks · synergy 0.55

Sephiroth, Planet's Heir rewards filling the graveyard, and Maha, Its Feathers Night scales its toughness reduction directly off that same resource. The deeper the graveyard, the more creatures Maha threatens to drop into range of Sephiroth's damage triggers.

04
The Scorpion God

The Scorpion God

51.3% of decks · synergy 0.50

The Scorpion God draws a card whenever a creature with a -1/-1 counter dies, and Maha, Its Feathers Night turns the counter-distribution into lethal hits by reducing toughness to match. Together they convert a slow attrition engine into a draw engine.

05
The Reaper, King No More

The Reaper, King No More

53.6% of decks · synergy 0.49

The Reaper, King No More cares about creatures dying and rewards controlling the board state at minimal creature count. Maha, Its Feathers Night enables mass kills without spending removal spells, keeping the Reaper's triggers firing without depleting resources.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Maha, Its Feathers Night does its best work — three opponents mean three graveyards feeding the toughness reduction simultaneously, and the multiplayer board-state gives the passive time to accumulate real value. In 1v1 Oathbreaker or Legacy, the reduction scales off only one graveyard and the effect is far less punishing, making Maha a fair-but-unexciting six-drop in those contexts. Standard, Pioneer, and Modern are all legal homes, but competitive lists in those formats rarely have the luxury of building around a six-mana legend whose payoff is inherently incremental rather than immediately impactful. Vintage can technically run it, but the format's speed renders the setup irrelevant. Treat Maha as a Commander card that happens to be legal elsewhere.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Tasha's Hideous Laughter and similar mill-payoff pieces can simulate parts of Maha, Its Feathers Night's graveyard-size dependency, but nothing directly replicates the global toughness-reduction static ability at a lower price point. Archfiend of Depravity and similar board-presence taxers occupy a comparable role in keeping creature counts low, though they work through a different axis — if the combo payoff is what you need, Maha is largely unique and the budget substitution is a meaningful downgrade.

Price Context

Current price

$33.49 premium tier

At $33.49, Maha, Its Feathers Night sits in premium territory for a card with strong synergy ties but limited competitive reach outside Commander. The price reflects genuine demand from black-based attrition decks rather than speculative pressure, which makes it reasonably stable — but casual-format singles rarely hold premium values indefinitely, so picking it up when you need it is better than waiting.

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