Weaponize the Monsters

Enchantment

{2}, Sacrifice a creature: This enchantment deals 2 damage to any target.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
Price
$0.09
EDHREC rank
#21061
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Weaponize the Monsters turns every creature sacrifice into a direct damage ping, converting your fodder into a win condition without spending a card each time. At one mana to cast, it's one of the cheapest damage-per-sacrifice engines in Commander.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Commander is where Weaponize the Monsters earns its slot — token-centric and sacrifice-heavy decks have no shortage of bodies to feed it, and one mana for a persistent damage engine is an exceptional rate in a format where enchantment removal is often deprioritized. In Modern and Pioneer it's too slow and too narrow; dedicated burn or sacrifice decks have more efficient payoffs, and opponents have enough interaction to answer a do-nothing enchantment before it generates meaningful value. Legacy and Vintage make the cost irrelevant but the effect redundant — those formats close games before a piecemeal pinging strategy matters. Oathbreaker is the only non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format where Weaponize the Monsters could slot into a token shell at a reasonable power level, though it remains niche there.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.09 bulk tier

At $0.09, Weaponize the Monsters is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card with real functional upside in the right shell. Price movement is unlikely; it's a common-rarity enchantment with a narrow audience, so what you see today is essentially its floor and ceiling.

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