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Witherbloom Pledgemage

Creature — Treefolk Warlock

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, you gain 1 life.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B/G}{B/G}
Color identity
BG
Rarity
common
Set
Strixhaven: School of Mages
Price
$0.14
EDHREC rank
#20204
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Witherbloom Pledgemage card art
Witherbloom Pledgemage is a two-mana 1/1 that does nothing on its own — until you pair it with Chain of Smog, at which point it becomes an infinite life-drain engine that kills the table. The cost is total dependency: without that one combo piece, you're playing a vanilla creature.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Witherbloom Pledgemage is essentially a Commander card — the Chain of Smog loop requires a dedicated shell built around it, and Commander's singleton format plus tutor access makes assembling two-card combos viable. In Pauper it's legal but irrelevant; no competitive Pauper deck wants a 1/1 with no immediate board impact. Legacy, Vintage, Modern, and Pioneer are all theoretically legal but the card sees zero play in any of them — the combo is too slow and too telegraphed for those formats. Oathbreaker offers a narrow case if your planeswalker synergizes with life-loss triggers, but Commander remains the only format where Witherbloom Pledgemage actually does something.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.14 bulk tier

At $0.14, Witherbloom Pledgemage is deep bulk — the price reflects that it's a do-nothing body outside of one specific combo. Don't expect movement; it sits at this floor because casual combo demand is already priced in and the card has no other applications pushing it higher.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.