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Tree of Perdition

Creature — Plant

Defender
{T}: Exchange target opponent's life total with this creature's toughness.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
mythic
Set
Eldritch Moon Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#2038
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Tree of Perdition card art
Tree of Perdition swaps its toughness with a player's life total as a tap ability — meaning a single activation can drop someone from 40 to 13 at instant speed with the right setup. The cost is real: it enters tapped, dies to any removal before you untap, and does nothing the turn it lands without haste or an untap effect. Pair it with Bloodletter of Aclazotz to convert that halved life total into a kill condition, or lean on Auntie Ool, Cursewretch to push the combo further into broken territory.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Auntie Ool, Cursewretch

Auntie Ool, Cursewretch

64.9% of decks · synergy 0.60

Auntie Ool, Cursewretch is the natural home — her ability to repeatedly untap creatures means Tree of Perdition can fire more than once per turn cycle, threatening multiple players in a single rotation and turning a slow enchantment-creature into a repeatable life-total eraser.

02
Felothar the Steadfast

Felothar the Steadfast

70.6% of decks · synergy 0.59

Felothar the Steadfast rewards tapping creatures for value, and Tree of Perdition is among the highest-ceiling tap effects in the game — a single activation can reshape the threat landscape of the entire table, which lines up cleanly with Felothar's go-wide tap-synergy gameplan.

03
Phenax, God of Deception

Phenax, God of Deception

58.5% of decks · synergy 0.57

Phenax, God of Deception turns high-toughness creatures into mill engines, and Tree of Perdition's 13 toughness mills 13 cards per activation in addition to its life-swap threat — two distinct axes of pressure from one card.

04
Venom, Deadly Devourer

Venom, Deadly Devourer

54.4% of decks · synergy 0.54

Venom, Deadly Devourer cares about losing life and draining opponents, making the life-total swap from Tree of Perdition a setup piece that can trigger death-based and life-loss payoffs the moment a player hits the reduced number.

05
Mairsil, the Pretender

Mairsil, the Pretender

52.5% of decks · synergy 0.52

Mairsil, the Pretender cages Tree of Perdition to steal its tap ability, putting the life-swap on a commander with built-in protection and access to unlimited untap loops — effectively giving Mairsil a reusable one-shot kill button.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Tree of Perdition does its best work: 40 starting life means the swap to 13 is a 27-point swing, and multiplayer tables offer multiple targets for the ability across different turn cycles. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but largely ignored — 20-life formats narrow the swing considerably, and a four-mana creature that enters tapped and can't attack until the following turn doesn't survive long enough in those faster environments to justify the slot. Vintage allows it but the format is far too fast for a tap-based combo piece at this mana cost. Tree of Perdition is a Commander card first, a curiosity elsewhere.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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