Quiet Disrepair
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant artifact or enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one —
• Destroy enchanted permanent.
• You gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Planechase Anthology
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #22422
Quiet Disrepair answers an enchantment or artifact permanently, then drains your opponents for 2 life each upkeep until you need it gone — it's removal that doubles as a slow life-gain engine. The catch is that you control the timing of destruction, meaning the enchanted permanent sticks around until you choose to cash it in, which makes this worse than Disenchant in any situation where the threat needs to die immediately.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Quiet Disrepair occupies an awkward slot — enchantment and artifact removal is abundant, and the life-gain rider rarely matters in a format where players start at 40 and games go long. Pauper is where Quiet Disrepair has the most legitimate claim: at common, unconditional enchantment or artifact removal with upside is scarcer, and 2 life per turn compounds in a format where aggressive life-total pressure is real. In Legacy and Vintage it's simply outclassed — Disenchant, Shenanigans, and Force of Vigor all do the job faster or for less cost. The card is legal across most formats but relevant in almost none above the Pauper floor.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Quiet Disrepair is deep bulk — you're buying it out of a common box, not a singles list. That price is stable because demand is low, and there's no realistic scenario where it spikes.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.