Song of Stupefaction
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature or Vehicle
When this Aura enters, you may mill two cards. (You may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Fathomless descent — Enchanted permanent gets -X/-0, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #23642
Song of Stupefaction permanently locks down a creature's activated abilities for just one blue mana — a surgical answer to mana dorks, combo engines, and utility creatures that would otherwise require a full removal spell. The trade-off is that the creature stays on the board, so it's not removal; it's a cheap, permanent ability-off switch.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Song of Stupefaction is a niche but genuinely effective piece of interaction: one mana to shut off Krenko, Mob Boss, Grim Monolith, or any other activated-ability engine is a real rate, and enchantment-based permanent stax effects are harder to remove than creatures. In Pauper, the card competes in a format full of utility creatures with key activated abilities, and at common rarity it slots into blue tempo and control shells as cheap disruption. In Modern and Pioneer, it doesn't crack main decks — dedicated removal is more efficient and the format is too fast for a do-nothing enchantment that leaves the creature alive. Legacy and Vintage have strictly better options for the same effect.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Song of Stupefaction is deep bulk — you'll find it in any common box or pick it up as a throw-in. That price is stable because demand is narrow and supply is plentiful, so there's no meaningful price floor to fall through.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.