Warmonger
Creature — Minotaur Monger
: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature without flying and each player. Any player may activate this ability.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Media and Collaboration Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #21125
Warmonger taxes every player for attacking with each creature, draining life from anyone who wants to swing — and that damage feeds directly into Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence's power-scaling and Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power's damage-replacement effect. The cost is real: slowing combat hurts aggressive strategies including your own, so it belongs in decks that exploit the life loss rather than win through combat.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence
Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence turns every point of Warmonger's life-drain into a +1/+1 counter and a damage trigger, making each opponent's attack step a resource-generating event for you.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Warmonger is a Commander card through and through — the group-slug effect is largely irrelevant in one-on-one formats, where taxing a single opponent is far less powerful than punishing three tables simultaneously. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but unplayed; the three-mana do-nothing-immediately rate doesn't survive those formats' threat density. Commander is where Warmonger earns its slot, specifically in red life-loss and damage-matters builds that can convert the bleed into something threatening. Oathbreaker is the only other format where the multiplayer math holds up, though the card pool is narrower.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of PowerWarmonger
Each opponent loses the game; Near-infinite damage
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Crystalline CrawlerGideon's SacrificeVigorWarmonger
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite colored mana; Infinite damage; Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you; Lock
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Crystalline CrawlerSaving GraceVigorWarmonger
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite colored mana; Infinite damage
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Current price
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Pricing data for Warmonger isn't available in the current feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given its narrow Commander niche, expect a budget-friendly tag — it's not a card with broad cross-format demand driving prices up.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.