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Unholy Indenture

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Core Set 2020
Price
$0.10
EDHREC rank
#10660
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Unholy Indenture card art
Unholy Indenture returns a creature from your graveyard to the battlefield and slaps an Aura on it that drains opponents each upkeep — reanimation and a persistent drain engine stapled together for four mana. Sun Titan can recur it for repeat loops, and Eriette of the Charmed Apple turns every Aura-equipped creature into a political threat that compounds the life drain.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Eriette of the Charmed Apple

Eriette of the Charmed Apple

20.8% of decks · synergy 0.19

Eriette of the Charmed Apple drains opponents on her own upkeep for each creature they don't control that's enchanted, so Unholy Indenture's built-in drain Aura stacks directly with her passive — you get reanimation and an extra drain trigger from a single spell.

02
Eriette, the Beguiler

Eriette, the Beguiler

13.3% of decks · synergy 0.13

Eriette, the Beguiler steals creatures and rewards stacking Auras, so Unholy Indenture pulling a creature back and immediately enchanting it feeds both halves of her game plan at once.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Unholy Indenture is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the place it actually sees play is Commander. In Pauper it's theoretically available but competes with more efficient common reanimation, and in eternal formats the four-mana cost makes it uncompetitive against faster options. Commander is where the slow, incremental drain trigger has room to breathe across long games, and multiplayer upkeep triggers multiply the value without any extra work.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.10 bulk tier

At $0.10, Unholy Indenture is deep bulk — the kind of card you find in a draft chaff box. Bulk enchantments at this price point don't appreciate unless a deck-defining commander pushes them into the spotlight, and the Eriette commanders do provide some steady demand, but don't expect the price to move.

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