Uneasy Alliance
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block.
, Sacrifice this Aura: Exile enchanted creature. You create a 1/1 black Ninja creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #20314
Uneasy Alliance gives an opponent a 1/1 flier and draws you a card for two mana — the gift is the cost, and in Commander that tax is trivial. A cantrip that replaces itself is never dead, and handing one player a small evasive body is a political tool as much as a drawback.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Uneasy Alliance is a role-player in group-hug and political builds — the 1/1 gift is meaningful leverage with the right commander, and a cantrip that costs two mana is never a liability. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, donating a creature to your opponent is a real cost with no political upside, so the card fails the rate test against dedicated two-mana cantrips. Legacy and Vintage have access to strictly better card selection at one mana, pushing Uneasy Alliance to the fringes. Pauper is its most interesting competitive home — at common, a cantrip that also builds an opponent's board can slot into specific tempo-disruption shells, though it's fringe there too. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's political dynamics on a smaller scale, keeping the card viable in the same group-hug archetype.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Uneasy Alliance is deep bulk — buy a playset without thinking about it. The price reflects its narrow application, and there's no realistic demand spike coming from competitive formats to move it off the bulk floor.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.