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Outpost Siege

Enchantment

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons.
• Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card.
• Dragons — Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, this enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
New Capenna Commander
Price
$0.35
EDHREC rank
#2203
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Outpost Siege card art
Outpost Siege delivers a free card off the top every turn or a guaranteed ping for each creature leaving your side of the board — at four mana on an enchantment, that sustained advantage is hard to answer. The Khans mode pairs obscenely well with Norin the Wary, who flickers out and back every single turn, and the Dragons mode doubles as a soft lock under Worldfire effects.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Norin the Wary

Norin the Wary

68.5% of decks · synergy 0.61

Norin the Wary flickers himself every time a spell is cast or a creature attacks, which means Outpost Siege's Dragons mode pings for one damage every single turn without any additional setup — it's the primary reason the card shows up in nearly 70% of Norin lists.

02
Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald

Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald

53.8% of decks · synergy 0.49

Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald triggers whenever you cast a spell or play a card from anywhere other than your hand, so Outpost Siege's Khans mode feeds her directly — every top-deck exile is a free Wolf token on top of whatever the card itself does.

03
Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients

Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients

54.1% of decks · synergy 0.49

Outpost Siege's Dragons mode pings Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients for one damage each turn, which triggers his ability to spawn Dragon Spirit tokens — a clean loop that generates board presence with zero additional investment.

04
Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival

Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival

33.8% of decks · synergy 0.32

Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival cares about artifacts and tokens entering play, and Outpost Siege's steady stream of exiled cards gives her something to work with each turn while the Dragons mode can ping down blockers to keep her team swinging.

05
Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bello, Bard of the Brambles

32.4% of decks · synergy 0.28

Bello, Bard of the Brambles buffs Sagas and enchantments, and Outpost Siege's persistent card advantage fits naturally into the enchantment-heavy builds that want to keep the board stocked with threats Bello can pump.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Outpost Siege is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only sees meaningful play in Commander. In faster formats like Modern and Legacy, four mana for a symmetry-free but slow card-advantage engine can't compete with two-mana cantrips and free interaction — by the time it resolves, you're likely already behind or dead. Commander is where it lives: multiplayer games go long, the enchantment type is hard to interact with compared to creatures, and the choice between card flow and repeated damage lets it slot into wildly different archetypes. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home too, especially in red spell-slinger builds where the Khans mode just keeps the hand full.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

686 decks
WorldfireOutpost Siege

WorldfireOutpost Siege

Each opponent loses the game; Exile all cards in hands and graveyards; Exile all permanents; Near-infinite lifeloss; Mass Land Denial

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Price Context

Current price

$0.35 bulk tier

At $0.35, Outpost Siege is firmly bulk — it's one of the easiest includes you'll ever justify in a red Commander deck. Bulk enchantments with broad playability don't tend to spike unless something drastically breaks them, so expect this price to stay flat.

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