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Planeswalker's Scorn

Enchantment

{3}{B}: Target opponent reveals a card at random from their hand. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the revealed card's mana value. Activate only as a sorcery.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Planeshift
Price
$0.30
EDHREC rank
#28884
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Planeswalker's Scorn card art
Planeswalker's Scorn makes each opponent discard a card every time you activate a planeswalker loyalty ability — which in the right deck means multiple forced discards per turn cycle. The cost is that it does nothing without a planeswalker on board, so it's a dead card in any deck that doesn't run them as a central engine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Planeswalker's Scorn is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander and Oathbreaker are the only formats where it sees any real play. In Commander, it functions as a group-slug piece in superfriends builds, taxing all three opponents simultaneously every time you tick a planeswalker up or down. Legacy and Vintage have the card pools to support planeswalker-heavy shells, but those formats move too fast and interact too precisely for a slow enchantment that requires sustained loyalty activations to generate value. Oathbreaker is arguably the tightest fit — your commander is a planeswalker by rule, so Planeswalker's Scorn generates value the moment it enters.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.30 bulk tier

At $0.30, Planeswalker's Scorn sits firmly in bulk territory, which is about right for a card with narrow commander-specific appeal. Bulk enchantments with niche synergy requirements rarely climb without a high-profile reprint or sudden breakout Commander deck, so don't expect movement.

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