Spiteflame Witch
Creature — Elemental Shaman
: Each player loses 1 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #27066
Spiteflame Witch deals 1 damage to each player at the cost of tapping and spending mana from creatures you control — a repeatable symmetrical ping that scales with how many mana producers you have on board. Niche by design, but in the right shell it's a free loop piece rather than a fair card.
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 |
Spiteflame Witch sees essentially no play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage — formats where repeatable 1-damage effects need to be free or attached to something that also wins the game, and this requires both a tap and creature mana. Commander is its natural home, where creature-heavy mana-engine decks can loop the ability multiple times per turn and where 1 damage per player adds up across four life totals. Oathbreaker is legal but the 20-life format moves too fast for this to matter outside a specific combo shell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Spiteflame Witch is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. That price is stable in the sense that there's no reason for it to move; it occupies too narrow a niche to spike and is too common to disappear.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.