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Tempting Witch

Creature — Human Warlock

When this creature enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Food: Target player loses 3 life.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Jumpstart
Price
$0.30
EDHREC rank
#16087
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Tempting Witch card art
Tempting Witch enters, drains each opponent for 1, and hands out Food tokens it will later use against them — that's immediate board presence plus a built-in late-game pressure valve. The catch is a three-mana 1/3 body that requires setup to fully exploit, which is why Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar, who turns Food sacrifice into a cost reduction engine, is its natural home.

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Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar reduces its own casting cost whenever a player loses life, and Tempting Witch's enter-the-battlefield drain triggers that reduction immediately while stocking the board with Food tokens that feed Asmor's sacrifice-based suite.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Tempting Witch punches above its mana cost because the drain hits each opponent simultaneously — three or four life lost on entry is real card equity at a three-mana rate. Outside Commander, the card is legal in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Pauper, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but one-for-one drain at three mana doesn't make the cut in any of those formats where opponents come one at a time and tempo is unforgiving. Pauper is the closest argument — the Food generation has some synergy value there — but Tempting Witch remains firmly a Commander card in practice.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.30 bulk tier

At $0.30, Tempting Witch is bulk, which is exactly right for a card whose demand is almost entirely Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar decks and niche Food synergy builds. There's no meaningful price floor risk here — pick it up freely and don't expect movement.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.