Tainted Indulgence
Instant
Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #8335
Tainted Indulgence draws two cards and dumps one to the graveyard for two mana — that's the whole deal, and it's a good one. In any deck that wants cards in the graveyard, this is a strict upgrade over Divination; Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer turns the discarded card into a free cast, making the "downside" pure upside.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer
Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer casts noncreature spells discarded from hand for free, so Tainted Indulgence becomes draw two, cast one for two mana — one of the most efficient card-advantage plays available to the deck.
Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy // Scion of Halaster
Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy // Scion of Halaster recurs instants and sorceries from the graveyard, and Tainted Indulgence feeds that engine while replacing itself immediately — two-mana looting that stockpiles future Gale triggers.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Tainted Indulgence is a Commander card first and foremost — the self-mill payoffs, reanimator engines, and graveyard commanders that make the discard a feature rather than a bug are almost exclusively an EDH phenomenon. In Legacy and Vintage it's too slow and too fair; those formats have Brainstorm and Frantic Search doing more work for equal or less mana. Modern and Pioneer offer better options for graveyard-centric strategies, and the card sees virtually no competitive play there. Stick to Commander, where two-mana draw-two-and-mill is quietly excellent in the right shell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Tainted Indulgence is pure bulk — easy to acquire and easy to recommend without a budget conversation. Bulk rares with narrow but reliable homes tend to sit in this range indefinitely, so there's no urgency either way; just pick it up when you're placing an order.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy // Scion of Halaster
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.