Venomous Fangs
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a creature, destroy the other creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #24011
Venomous Fangs turns any creature into a removal magnet — slap it on a blocker and every combat trade becomes a deathtouch kill, which warps how opponents attack into you for the rest of the game. Three mana to enchant plus the aura itself is a real cost, but the board control it buys in creature-heavy metas is legitimate.
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 |
In Commander, Venomous Fangs earns its slot in go-wide decks that want to make every token a deterrent, and it's particularly effective on creatures with first strike or reach that already trade favorably in combat. Pauper is its best competitive home — the card is legal and deathtouch auras at common rarity are scarce enough that the effect has real scarcity value in that format's creature battles. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; the power ceiling in those formats leaves Venomous Fangs behind. Oathbreaker follows Commander's logic closely, where the smaller game size makes a single enchanted blocker matter even more.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Venomous Fangs is deep bulk — you're buying it out of a common bin, not tracking it on the market. The price is stable at the floor and will stay there; this is a role-player you pick up by the playset without thinking.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.