Stench of Evil
Sorcery
Destroy all Plains. For each land destroyed this way, Stench of Evil deals 1 damage to that land's controller unless they pay 
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- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #25630
Stench of Evil wipes all Plains from the battlefield and forces their controller to lose 2 life per land destroyed — a one-sided nuke in a mono-black shell against white-heavy tables. The cost is real: it does nothing in games without white opponents, making it a meta call rather than a staple.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Stench of Evil is a Commander card through and through — the more white decks at a four-player table, the more land destruction and life drain you're buying for four mana. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but has never found a home; those formats move too fast for a sorcery that requires opponents to be on white in the first place. Oathbreaker shares the same logic as Commander: high upside against white, dead card otherwise.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Stench of Evil is deep bulk — pick it up for pocket change if your local meta is white-heavy. Demand is too narrow to expect the price to move in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.