Stinging Licid
Creature — Licid
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: This creature loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay to end this effect.
Whenever enchanted creature becomes tapped, this creature deals 2 damage to that creature's controller.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #28504
Stinging Licid turns itself into an Aura that drains the equipped creature for 1 each upkeep — persistent, repeatable life loss that your opponent can't easily shake without paying blue mana. The setup cost is real: 1U to activate, and your opponent can pay 1U to break the lock, which makes it fragile in blue-heavy metas.
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 |
Commander is where Stinging Licid sees its most plausible home, slotted into life-drain or Licid-tribal shells where the incremental damage stacks across multiple opponents over a long game. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but entirely outclassed — the effect is too slow and too interruptible to matter in those formats. Stinging Licid is essentially a Commander-only card in practice, and even there it needs a dedicated build to justify the slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Stinging Licid is deep bulk — you're not buying this for financial upside. It holds that price floor because demand is narrow enough that there's no meaningful market pressure in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.