Pooling Venom
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller loses 2 life.
: Destroy enchanted land.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Future Sight
- Price
- $0.35
- EDHREC rank
- #25724
Pooling Venom turns every swamp an opponent taps into a two-damage drain, and doubles that damage if they decline to untap it — the pressure is real and entirely free to maintain once it resolves. At two mana for an enchantment that does nothing the turn it enters, you need a deck built around land taxation or Swamp-forcing effects to justify the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Pooling Venom is a niche enchantment that earns its slot only in dedicated land-pain or Swamp-forcing builds — with Urborg, Tomb of Blackness on the battlefield, every tapped land at a four-player table becomes a drain trigger, which adds up fast. Outside of that specific shell, the effect is too slow and too conditional to pull weight against three opponents at once. In Legacy and Vintage, Pooling Venom is legal but irrelevant — those formats end before a two-mana enchantment with no immediate impact can generate meaningful value. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: powerful with the right planeswalker and signature spell pairing, forgettable without dedicated support.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.35 bulk tier
At $0.35, Pooling Venom is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or cheap experiment for a land-pain build. The price is unlikely to move without a high-profile Commander decklist pushing demand, so grab it cheap if the shell fits and don't think twice about the cost.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.