Weed Strangle
Sorcery
Destroy target creature. Clash with an opponent. If you win, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on their choice of the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a greater mana value.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Lorwyn
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #14515
Weed Strangle destroys any creature and loads three cards into your graveyard — that's a removal spell and a self-mill engine stapled together. The six-mana price tag limits it to shells that explicitly want cards in the graveyard, but in those contexts Marvo, Deep Operative lists run it at over 56% inclusion for exactly this reason.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Marvo, Deep Operative
Marvo, Deep Operative cares about surveiling, and Weed Strangle's three-card mill triggers that engine while clearing a blocker — one spell doing two jobs is exactly what Marvo lists want.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Weed Strangle is a bulk uncommon in every format where it's legal, and that's the honest read across the board. In Commander, it earns a slot specifically in graveyard-synergy decks — reanimator, threshold, and self-mill strategies that treat the three-card mill as a feature rather than a footnote. In Pauper, six mana is a steep ask against faster aggressive decks, and unconditional removal at common exists at lower costs, so it rarely sees play. Legacy and Vintage give it no path — the mana bar is simply too high when those formats have access to far more efficient answers.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Weed Strangle sits firmly in bulk territory and is unlikely to climb — it fills a niche role and faces no scarcity pressure. Pick it up freely; the only cost that matters here is the six mana you spend casting it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.