Pests of Honor
Creature — Mouse
Celebration — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if two or more nonland permanents entered the battlefield under your control this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #15789
Pests of Honor puts three 1/1 tokens with lifelink and deathtouch onto the battlefield — a combination that trades up with almost anything — while also threatening direct damage or healing depending on how your opponents respond. The cost is real: at five mana for a sorcery, you need the token payoff to matter immediately, and Mabel, Heir to Cragflame is exactly the commander that makes it matter.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mabel, Heir to Cragflame
Mabel, Heir to Cragflame rewards you for attacking with artifact creatures, and Pests of Honor supplies three deathtouch bodies that can be equipped or modified to trigger her abilities while the built-in lifelink keeps your life total healthy enough to stay aggressive.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Pests of Honor occupies a narrow but functional slot in go-wide token strategies that care about deathtouch or lifelink specifically — it blankets the board with deterrents and stabilizes life totals in one move. The five-mana ask is acceptable at a table where the game goes long, but faster pods will punish the tempo loss. In competitive 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — Pests of Honor is too slow and too fragile to compete; five mana for three 1/1s without immediate card advantage is well below rate. Standard is its most permissive home outside Commander, where token synergies and sacrifice payoffs can extract real value, though it remains a fringe consideration rather than a mainstay.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Pests of Honor sits firmly in bulk territory, which is accurate given its narrow application and token-count ceiling. Bulk rares rarely climb without a breakout Standard season or a dedicated Commander archetype pulling demand, and nothing on the horizon points strongly in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.