The Fall of Kroog
Sorcery
Choose target opponent. Destroy target land that player controls. The Fall of Kroog deals 3 damage to that player and 1 damage to each creature they control.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #22553
The Fall of Kroog is a three-mana enchantment that deals 2 damage to each opponent on entry and then drains 1 life from each opponent at your upkeep — persistent, inevitable chip damage that requires no additional investment. The cost is that it does nothing to the board state itself, so it belongs in decks that can actually close games, not ones that need the slot for interaction.
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 |
In Commander, The Fall of Kroog is at its best in aristocrats, token-flood, or life-drain shells where the upkeep trigger compounds across three opponents and the enter-the-battlefield ping is real damage from turn three onward. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer are all legal formats, but The Fall of Kroog does not see meaningful play in any of them — a three-mana enchantment that deals 1 damage per turn is too slow for formats where games end on turns four or five. Oathbreaker is the other format worth mentioning, where the compressed game length and two-player damage reduce its scaling advantage.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, The Fall of Kroog is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a commons box, not paying for it. Bulk enchantments with persistent upkeep triggers rarely spike, so there's no reason to hoard copies, but there's equally no reason not to own a few.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.