Radiant Epicure
Creature — Vampire Wizard
Converge — When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #26345
Radiant Epicure drains each opponent for 1 life every time you cast a multicolored spell — in a four-player pod, that's 3 life per spell, and it stacks fast. Five mana is the honest cost of that text, and in the right shell it pays for itself within a turn or two.
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 |
Radiant Epicure is a Commander card through and through — the three-opponent multiplier is what makes the math work, and nowhere else does that math exist. In Legacy and Vintage it's a five-mana 3/3 with a marginal drain trigger in a one-on-one context, which is simply too slow and too small to register. Commander is the only format where Radiant Epicure earns its slot, specifically in multicolored-heavy life-drain strategies where it can trigger four or more times per turn cycle.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Radiant Epicure is deep bulk — freely available in any trade binder or dollar-bin box. That price is stable; there's no scarcity pressure to move it, and it sees just enough Commander play to keep it from being a throw-in nobody wants.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.