Precipitous Drop
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)
Enchanted creature gets -2/-2. It gets -5/-5 instead as long as you've completed a dungeon.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #15033
Precipitous Drop kills a creature and mills three cards for three mana at instant speed — the effect is clean and the dungeon decks that want it get both halves to work. Acererak the Archlich lists run it at nearly 15% inclusion because the mill feeds delve, reanimation, and dungeon triggers simultaneously, which is the exact overlap that makes a narrow card worth a slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Acererak the Archlich
Acererak the Archlich bounces itself until you've completed a dungeon, so every spell that advances the board state and mills simultaneously is pulling double duty — Precipitous Drop removes a blocker and fills the graveyard for recursion payoffs in the same action.
Sefris of the Hidden Ways
Sefris of the Hidden Ways triggers off creatures entering your graveyard from anywhere, so Precipitous Drop's three-card mill can flip a creature into the yard and fire a venture trigger — that's removal and engine fuel on the same card for Sefris of the Hidden Ways decks.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Precipitous Drop is a Commander card through and through — the mill-three rider is largely irrelevant in 60-card formats where three cards is a meaningful fraction of your deck, and three mana for a single removal spell without a relevant upside doesn't clear the bar in Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy. Pauper is where it might see fringe play if a self-mill or reanimator shell needs the redundancy, but the competition from cheaper removal is stiff. In Commander, the dungeon and graveyard synergies justify the cost in the right 100-card shell, but outside that narrow context it's just an overcosted murder.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Precipitous Drop is deep bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for a role-player in a specific archetype. Bulk commons with narrow applications don't appreciate, so pick it up if you need it and don't worry about the price moving.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.