Uncontrolled Infestation
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant nonbasic land
When enchanted land becomes tapped, destroy it.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Scourge
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #27034
Uncontrolled Infestation slaps an enchantment onto a land that produces a 1/1 Insect token on each upkeep — free recurring bodies, no mana required after the initial cast. The cost is real: the enchanted land loses all other abilities, so you're trading a functional mana source for a bug factory.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Uncontrolled Infestation has the most room to breathe, specifically in token-and-sacrifice strategies that can turn a stream of 1/1 Insects into fuel for altars, aristocrats payoffs, or go-wide finishers. Pauper is the other relevant format — at common, it slots into token-based or enchantress shells where the card-advantage ceiling matters and the land-tax is more acceptable. Legacy and Vintage are legal in name only; the effect is far too slow and low-impact for those formats. The land-sacrifice clause is the ceiling on competitive relevance across the board: you're down a mana source the moment this resolves, which demands a deck built to compensate.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Uncontrolled Infestation is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a dollar box without thinking twice. Bulk enchantments with niche token upside rarely move off the floor unless a new commander breaks the effect open, so don't expect the price to budge.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.