Painbringer
Creature — Human Minion
, Exile any number of cards from your graveyard: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards exiled this way.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #28726
Painbringer trades exiling cards from your graveyard for repeatable, tap-activated destruction of any creature — no targeting restriction, no mana cost beyond the setup. The ceiling is high in graveyard-heavy shells; outside them, it's a 3/3 that does nothing.
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 |
Commander is where Painbringer actually gets to work — graveyard-centric decks running Meren of Clan Nel Toth, Gisa and Geralf, or any self-mill strategy generate enough yard fodder to fire Painbringer's ability multiple times per turn cycle. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; the format speed means a five-mana do-nothing-on-entry creature never sees serious play. Oathbreaker is legal in name, but the smaller deck size shrinks the graveyard resource pool Painbringer depends on.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Painbringer is pure bulk — low financial risk for a card you're testing in a new shell. Don't expect price movement; it's been in this tier for years and the narrow graveyard requirement keeps casual demand modest.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.