Mire Blight

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature is dealt damage, destroy it.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Zendikar
Price
$0.05
EDHREC rank
#25531
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Mire Blight turns any creature into a liability — the enchanted creature's controller loses life equal to its toughness whenever it blocks or becomes blocked, which snowballs fast on anything with a big backside. One black mana for that effect is an absurd rate, and the card earns a slot in any black deck that wants to punish defensive play.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Commander is where Mire Blight does its best work: slapping it on an opponent's 0/8 blocker or a pillow-fort piece converts their defensive infrastructure into a drain engine against them. In Pauper it sees fringe play in black aggressive shells that want cheap auras to close games, though the effect is narrow enough that it rarely makes the cut over removal. Legacy and Vintage are too fast and interactive for a one-mana enchantment with no immediate board impact to matter. Mire Blight is fundamentally a Commander card — the multiplayer environment, longer games, and prevalence of large-toughness utility creatures give it the most room to operate.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.05 bulk tier

At $0.05, Mire Blight is deep bulk — you'll find copies in any common bin without looking hard. The price reflects its narrow role rather than any power ceiling issue, so it holds at this floor indefinitely.

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