Monumental Corruption
Sorcery
Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of artifacts you control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander
- Price
- $0.35
- EDHREC rank
- #8175
Monumental Corruption draws you cards equal to the number of artifacts you control, then costs you that much life — in the right deck, that's 8–12 cards for 8–12 life at instant speed, which is a bargain. Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist turns every created Clank token and sacrificed artifact into fuel that makes this hit harder, and the combination is one of the most explosive single-spell refuels in black.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist
Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist is the premier home for Monumental Corruption because she generates Clank tokens continuously, meaning Monumental Corruption routinely draws six or more cards off a board state Ashnod herself built.
The Most Dangerous Gamer
The Most Dangerous Gamer accumulates artifacts aggressively through Hunt counters and triggered loot effects, giving Monumental Corruption a wide artifact count to convert into a mid-to-late-game hand refill that keeps the Hunt engine rolling.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Monumental Corruption is a Commander card through and through — the format's artifact-heavy strategies and 40-life starting total are precisely what make paying 10 life to draw 10 cards feel correct rather than suicidal. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but unplayed; those formats have faster, more reliable draw engines that don't ask you to build around artifact count. Oathbreaker is a reasonable secondary home if the signature spell or planeswalker generates artifacts, but the 20-life total tightens the ceiling considerably compared to Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.35 bulk tier
At $0.35, Monumental Corruption sits firmly in bulk territory, which understates its power in the decks that want it. Bulk rares with narrow-but-deep synergy tend to stay cheap, so there's no urgency — pick it up whenever, it won't cost you more.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.