Martyr's Bond

Enchantment

Whenever this enchantment or another nonland permanent you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
The List
Price
$0.52
EDHREC rank
#10265
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Martyr's Bond card art
Martyr's Bond turns every sacrifice you make into a Vindicate aimed at the table — each non-land permanent you lose forces each opponent to sacrifice a permanent of the same type, chaining removal across the whole board. Six mana is a real cost, but commanders like Kibo, Uktabi Prince and Malik, Grim Manipulator generate sacrifice fodder on demand, making that price trivial.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Malik, Grim Manipulator

Malik, Grim Manipulator

10.4% of decks · synergy 0.10

Malik, Grim Manipulator forces opponents to sacrifice creatures on his own, and Martyr's Bond converts every one of those deaths into a cascading demand for matching permanents — stack enough triggers and entire boards collapse without Malik ever swinging.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Martyr's Bond is a Commander card through and through — its symmetrical punishment engine only scales up with more opponents at the table, and four-player games give it exponentially more targets than any 1v1 format could. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but sees no meaningful play; six mana for a do-nothing enchantment until you sacrifice something is far too slow against those formats' threat density. Oathbreaker is the one other format where Martyr's Bond could see niche play, particularly in go-wide sacrifice builds where the planeswalker's loyalty abilities generate expendable permanents.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.52 bulk tier

At $0.52, Martyr's Bond sits firmly in bulk territory despite being a genuine build-around enchantment with no functional reprint. The low price reflects narrow Commander demand rather than weak power level — it overperforms its cost in the right shell.

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