Widespread Panic
Enchantment
Whenever a spell or ability causes its controller to shuffle their library, that player puts a card from their hand on top of their library.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander 2013
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #22913
Widespread Panic turns every spell your opponents cast into a shuffle tax, grinding their library tutors, topdeck setups, and card advantage engines to a halt. Three mana for a permanent enchantment that stacks with itself and scales with a full table is a strong rate — run it in any deck that wants to punish spellslinging or protect its own library manipulation.
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 |
Widespread Panic is a Commander card through and through — four opponents casting spells every round means the shuffle trigger fires constantly, and any tutor becomes an expensive tempo loss. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; those formats move too fast for a three-mana enchantment that doesn't threaten the board or end the game. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card format where it can pull real weight, particularly in spellslinger builds where the opponent's signature spell triggers it every other turn.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Widespread Panic is deep bulk — easy to pick up in a trade binder or throw into any cart hitting a free-shipping threshold. Niche enough that demand stays low, but the effect is real, so the floor is stable.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.