Stensia Banquet
Sorcery
Stensia Banquet deals damage to target opponent or planeswalker equal to the number of Vampires you control.
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- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Eldritch Moon
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #19687
Stensia Banquet drains each opponent for 1 and gains you that much life, then replaces itself — three separate life-loss triggers for three opponents in a 4-player pod before the cantrip even matters. The problem is sorcery speed, one-time use, and a three-mana ask for an effect that vampire and aristocrat decks can get stapled onto better cards.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Stensia Banquet is a role-player in vampire tribal or drain-matters builds where each opponent losing 1 life translates into a meaningful trigger — think Markov, Strefan, or Edgar doing something with every life-loss event. Outside that lane it's too low-impact for three mana. In Pauper it's a common, but the format's aggressive redundancy means this rarely makes the cut over faster burn or removal. Legacy, Vintage, and Pioneer are non-starters — those formats demand more per mana than a sorcery-speed drain-1-and-draw.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Stensia Banquet is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. Bulk commons don't appreciate; run it because it fits the deck, not as a pickup.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.