Shared Fate
Enchantment
If a player would draw a card, that player exiles the top card of one of their opponents' libraries face down instead.
Each player may look at cards they exiled with this enchantment, and they may play lands and cast spells from among those cards.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.49
- EDHREC rank
- #14898
Shared Fate rewires the entire game's draw step — every player exiles the top card of an opponent's library face-down and may play it instead of drawing, turning all four libraries into a communal resource nobody fully controls. The cost is symmetry: without a lock piece like Drannith Magistrate stopping opponents from accessing exiled cards, you're handing the table the same chaotic advantage you're trying to exploit.
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 |
Shared Fate is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's almost exclusively a Commander card in practice — the multiplayer chaos is the point, and the four-player table maximizes how many different libraries you can pilfer. In Legacy and Vintage it's a five-mana enchantment with no immediate board impact, which is a death sentence in formats where the game is often decided by turn three. Commander is the one format where the political disruption and deck-theft angle actually matter, and even there it slots into a narrow niche of chaos or group-hug strategies rather than the competitive tier.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Drannith MagistrateShared Fate
Opponents can't cast spells exiled by Shared Fate; Players can't draw cards; Lock
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Current price
$0.49 bulk tier
At $0.49, Shared Fate is firmly bulk — low demand from a narrow design space keeps it there. It's unlikely to spike without a Commander printing or a high-profile combo deck emerging around it, so buying a copy costs almost nothing and sitting on extras carries no real upside.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.