Peer Pressure
Sorcery
Choose a creature type. If you control more creatures of that type than each other player, you gain control of all creatures of that type. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $1.49
- EDHREC rank
- #11893
Peer Pressure steals every creature of the most-represented type on the board — potentially a dozen bodies in a single cast. The catch is that it costs one blue mana per creature you take, so without massive mana support or a table full of token boards, it often overperforms only in dedicated shells like Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist
Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist forces every opponent to build a board of Salamander Warriors, so Peer Pressure routinely sweeps the table's entire creature base in one shot — then turns those stolen bodies into the fuel that wins the game.
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 |
Peer Pressure is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it does real work is Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, the sorcery speed and variable mana cost make it too slow and unreliable against focused linear decks that don't flood the board with a single creature type. Commander is where the multiPlayer dynamic — three opponents, tribal strategies, token generators — creates the conditions where Peer Pressure can resolve and immediately swing the game. In Oathbreaker, it's technically castable, but the smaller starting hand and lower game variance shrink its ceiling significantly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.49 cheap tier
At $1.49, Peer Pressure sits in the cheap tier — low enough to be a no-brainer include if your commander supports it. It holds that price on the strength of its near-exclusive home in Gor Muldrak builds, where it's nearly a staple, so don't expect it to drop further.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.