Quag Feast
Sorcery
Choose target creature, planeswalker, or Vehicle. Mill two cards, then destroy the chosen permanent if its mana value is less than or equal to the number of cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #13717
Quag Feast gives target creature -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control — a conditional removal spell that scales hard in mono-black or heavy-swamp builds. Aatchik, Emerald Radian decks that flood the board with basic Swamps can make this hit for five or six reliably, but outside dedicated black-land strategies it's too dependent on your mana base to compete with unconditional removal.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Aatchik, Emerald Radian
Aatchik, Emerald Radian's gameplan centers on accumulating Swamps, which makes Quag Feast a removal spell that grows in power exactly as the deck executes its plan — by the mid-game you're looking at -6/-6 or better for a single black mana.
Mimeoplasm, Revered One
Mimeoplasm, Revered One shells often lean into black heavily enough that Quag Feast can reliably threaten -4/-4 or -5/-5, giving the deck cheap, low-investment removal that scales with something it's already optimizing around.
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 |
Quag Feast is a Commander card almost by definition — the format's longer games and basic-land-friendly mana bases are the only context where counting five or six Swamps is a realistic baseline. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, unconditional removal at one mana sets the bar so high that a land-count-dependent -X/-X spell simply doesn't make the cut. Standard gives it a legal home but no competitive role. Quag Feast is worth running when your Commander deck is built around Swamps; in every other context, the conditional clause disqualifies it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Quag Feast sits firmly in bulk territory and is unlikely to move — it's a niche role-player with no broad competitive demand. Grab it for pocket change if you're building around Swamp density; it costs nothing and fills a slot that synergizes with your mana base at no real budget investment.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.