Witch Hunt
Enchantment
Players can't gain life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, this enchantment deals 4 damage to you.
At the beginning of your end step, target opponent chosen at random gains control of this enchantment.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $1.05
- EDHREC rank
- #15695
Witch Hunt forces each player to deal 2 damage to the player who dealt them damage each turn, creating a self-sustaining punishment loop that accelerates damage across the table. Outside of dedicated "give opponents bad stuff" strategies, the symmetry is a liability — Blim, Comedic Genius is the reason this card has a home.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Blim, Comedic Genius
Blim, Comedic Genius donates Witch Hunt to opponents who then become each other's targets, turning a symmetrical enchantment into a directional damage engine while Blim's controller manages who holds the hot potato.
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 |
Witch Hunt is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer damage web is the entire point, and it collapses to near-uselessness in one-on-one formats where the symmetry just accelerates both players equally. In Legacy and Vintage it's unplayed; four mana for a chaotic enchantment with no immediate impact has no place in those formats' threat hierarchies. Commander is where Witch Hunt earns its slot, specifically in Rakdos group-slug or donate strategies where the chaos is engineered rather than random. Oathbreaker could theoretically support it, but the two-player mirror problem resurfaces there in most pods.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.05 cheap tier
At $1.05, Witch Hunt sits firmly in the budget-bulk tier — cheap enough to throw in any group-slug or donate build without a second thought. Narrow demand keeps the price floor low, and there's no reason to expect that to change.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.