Winter, Misanthropic Guide
Legendary Creature — Human Warlock
Ward 
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws two cards.
Delirium — As long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, each opponent's maximum hand size is equal to seven minus the number of those card types.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #9123
Winter, Misanthropic Guide enters and immediately taxes your opponents' life totals whenever they cast spells, turning every spell in the game into a resource drain — without costing you anything per trigger. A two-mana 1/3 that generates passive pressure across multiple opponents is strong value in Commander, and the body being relevant in combat is gravy.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Winter, Misanthropic Guide shines brightest: three opponents each losing life on every spell they cast adds up fast in a format defined by spell-heavy turns and explosive combo chains. In 1v1 formats like Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, the trigger still fires but one opponent taking one or two life per spell is far less threatening when you need to win the damage race directly — there are cleaner two-drops for those environments. Standard and Vintage are both legal but Winter, Misanthropic Guide occupies an awkward space in each: too slow for Vintage's first-turn kills, and competing against more powerful rate cards in Standard.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Winter, Misanthropic Guide is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a playset without a second thought. Passive life-drain effects that scale with opponent count tend to hold casual demand in Commander, so don't expect this to crater further, but don't expect a spike either.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.