Void Maw
Creature — Horror
Trample
If another creature would die, exile it instead.
Put a card exiled with this creature into its owner's graveyard: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Coldsnap
- Price
- $0.51
- EDHREC rank
- #21206
Void Maw eats every creature that dies — yours, theirs, anyone's — and turns that board-wide graveyard denial into a growing threat on legs. Six mana and 4/5 trample is the fair rate you pay for an effect that makes Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa and graveyard-hate strategies look effortless.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Void Maw is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but realistically this is a Commander card. In Commander, six mana is acceptable for an effect that shuts down graveyard strategies at the table level — it doesn't require setup, it just sits there and eats. In Legacy and Vintage, a 6-mana 4/5 with no immediate impact on the board competes against formats where games end before it can grow, and targeted graveyard hate like Rest in Peace does the same job faster for far less mana. Modern is similarly hostile to that mana cost. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card variant where Void Maw could slot into a controlling shell, but even there the competition for the top of the curve is stiff.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Mishra, Tamer of Mak FawaVoid MawMyr BattlespherePhyrexian Altar
Infinite colored mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinitely large creature until end of turn; Infinite sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook ↗
Void MawFatestitcherPhyrexian Altar
Infinite colored mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinitely large creature until end of turn; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Sedris, the Traitor KingVoid MawAltar of DementiaPriest of Gix
Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinitely large creature until end of turn; Infinite mill; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite self-mill
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Sedris, the Traitor KingVoid MawAltar of DementiaWitch Engine
Infinite black mana; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinitely large creature until end of turn; Infinite mill; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite self-mill
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Void MawFatestitcherAltar of Dementia
Infinite death triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinitely large creature until end of turn; Infinite mill; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite self-mill; Infinite ETB
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.51 bulk tier
At $0.51, Void Maw sits firmly in bulk territory despite being a genuinely functional piece of graveyard hate with a combo ceiling. That price is unlikely to climb without a reprint into a high-visibility product, but at under a dollar it's one of the most cost-efficient ways to put a growing, trampling roadblock on the table.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.