Spitebellows
Creature — Elemental
When this creature leaves the battlefield, it deals 6 damage to target creature.
Evoke 
(You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #11345
Spitebellows enters and points six damage at any creature — then does it again for free when it dies, making it a removal spell stapled to a body that punishes anyone who tries to kill it. The cost is real: six mana is steep, and the evoke line demands seven, but in Jund-adjacent Commander decks that want creatures dying on purpose, that price gets paid.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kresh the Bloodbraided
Spitebellows is a perfect Kresh the Bloodbraided card — evoke it for seven and you get two creatures dying in one transaction, stacking Kresh with +12/+12 before you've touched an opponent's board.
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 |
Spitebellows is a Commander card through and through — six mana is too slow for Legacy, Modern, or Pauper, where the game is often decided before it resolves. In those formats, dedicated removal does the same job at a fraction of the cost and doesn't ask for a seventh mana on evoke. Commander is where it earns its slot: the longer game, the abundance of high-toughness creatures, and the prevalence of sacrifice synergies all make the evoke mode genuinely threatening. Decks that care about creatures dying — Kresh the Bloodbraided, Prossh, Skyraider of Kher, Korvold, Fae-Cursed King — treat Spitebellows as a two-for-one engine, not just a removal spell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Spitebellows is pure bulk — the kind of card you pull from a commons box without thinking twice. It won't hold or gain value, but it doesn't need to; the appeal is that a legitimate Commander synergy piece costs less than a sleeve.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.