Tattermunge Witch
Creature — Goblin Shaman
: Each blocked creature gets +1/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #24222
Tattermunge Witch forces every creature with a power-boosting ability to activate it each turn, converting passive pump text into mandatory attacks and blocks that drain your opponents' resources. The payoff is real in the right shell, but at three mana for a 1/1 with no protection, it dies to a stiff breeze before the trigger ever matters.
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 |
Tattermunge Witch is a Commander card first and almost exclusively — the effect is too slow and too narrow for Legacy or Vintage, where the game is often over before a three-mana 1/1 generates meaningful pressure. In Modern it's technically castable but competes in a format that punishes fragile value pieces with no immediate impact. Commander is where the forced-activation clause finds a home, specifically in decks that care about creatures attacking or untapping repeatedly, or that want to punish opponents running pump-heavy creature strategies. Oathbreaker is the one other format where a dedicated build could abuse it, pairing it with a planeswalker that benefits from combat chaos.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Tattermunge Witch is firmly bulk — you're picking this up out of a dollar box, not tracking it down online. It's a fringe-synergy card with a small enough print run to occasionally tick up in a tribal or forced-combat spike, but don't expect the price to move meaningfully without a breakout combo discovery.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.