Morbid Hunger
Sorcery
Morbid Hunger deals 3 damage to any target. You gain 3 life.
Flashback 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #29972
Morbid Hunger drains target player for 5 and gains you 5 life — that's a 10-point life swing stapled to a single spell, with flashback from the graveyard doubling the value. Seven mana for the first cast and five more for the flashback makes it a late-game card, not a tempo play.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Morbid Hunger is strictly a casual inclusion — the seven-mana initial cost is steep, but the unconditional life drain hits any player, and flashback from the graveyard means your opponents need to exile it to shut it down permanently. In Pauper, where commons compete on raw efficiency, it doesn't see play; five-mana flashback is too slow for that format's aggressive clock. Legacy and Vintage have it legal but zero reason to run it over faster, more impactful spells. Morbid Hunger belongs in Commander, and only in decks that explicitly care about life totals or reanimating the graveyard stack.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Morbid Hunger is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and nothing more. It won't appreciate; casual demand is the ceiling here, and that ceiling is low.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.