Season of Loss
Sorcery
Choose up to five 
worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once. — Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice. — Draw a card for each creature that died under your control this turn. — Each opponent loses X life, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Bloomburrow Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4386
Season of Loss hits the board as a repeating drain engine — every creature death taxes life totals and pads yours, which in a multiplayer game compounds fast. Fumulus, the Infestation turns that into a relentless loop, making Season of Loss a near-auto-include in any shell that wants to profit from sacrifice.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Fumulus, the Infestation
Fumulus, the Infestation generates a constant stream of dying tokens, and Season of Loss converts every one of those deaths into a life-drain trigger that scales with each opponent simultaneously — the card does more work here than almost anywhere else in the format.
Vren, the Relentless
Vren, the Relentless floods the board with Rat tokens and then cashes them in, and Season of Loss turns each sacrifice into a life-swing that pressures all three opponents at once, accelerating the race Vren is already trying to win.
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 |
Season of Loss is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, though its real home is Commander. In a four-player pod, every creature death triggers it against each opponent independently, multiplying the drain in a way that two-player formats simply can't replicate. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Pioneer it's too slow and too conditional — sacrifice synergies exist there, but dedicated payoffs are cheaper and more focused. Oathbreaker splits the difference: a planeswalker commander that generates tokens or forces sacrifice could make Season of Loss relevant, but the format's smaller life totals reduce how much the cumulative drain matters.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
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Sources
Mentioned
- Fumulus, the Infestation
- Vren, the Relentless
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.