Thorntooth Witch
Creature — Treefolk Shaman
Whenever you cast a Treefolk spell, you may have target creature get +3/-3 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Lorwyn
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #21342
Thorntooth Witch turns every Swamp you play into a free Murder — a repeatable, no-mana removal trigger stapled to a 3/4 body. Seven mana is a real ask, but in black-heavy Commander shells grinding through the late game, the payoff compounds fast.
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 |
Thorntooth Witch is a Commander card through and through — seven mana does nothing in Legacy or Vintage, where the format is decided before she ever resolves, and Modern's efficiency bar is similarly out of reach. In Commander, black decks running heavy Swamp counts get genuine value: every land drop after she lands threatens removal, which forces opponents to play around something they can't predict. Mono-black or Swamp-dense two-color builds are where Thorntooth Witch earns her slot; anything splash-heavy dilutes the trigger rate enough to make her a liability.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Thorntooth Witch is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a draft chaff box rather than buy. That price is stable by default; there's no spike risk and no trajectory upward unless a pushed Swamp-matters commander drives sudden demand.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.