One Thousand Lashes
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player loses 1 life.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Gatecrash
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #19527
One Thousand Lashes locks down a creature permanently — it can't attack, block, or activate abilities, and drains its controller for one life each upkeep. Four mana for a Pacifism-plus effect is where the cost hurts; you're spending a full turn to answer a single threat rather than removing it cleanly.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, One Thousand Lashes occupies the low end of the enchantment-based removal suite — it answers a creature without killing it, which matters for indestructible threats but loses value against sacrifice outlets and graveyard decks. The life drain is negligible at 40 life, and leaving the creature on board means you're exposed to enchantment removal blowing out your investment. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, four mana for an effect that doesn't end the threat is simply too slow to matter. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it at any price.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, One Thousand Lashes is pure bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for a draft leftover. It won't appreciate; enchantment-based removal at this effect level has no constructed demand pushing the price upward.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.