Withercrown
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has base power 0 and has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life unless you sacrifice this creature."
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #18132
Withercrown locks a creature out of attacking while draining its controller for 1 each upkeep — meaningful pressure at two mana. It's a solid budget option in black removal suites, especially when you want the enchanted creature to stay on board as a liability rather than a blank.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Withercrown fills a niche: it handles a threat without eliminating it, which matters against commanders or value creatures your opponents want in the graveyard. The 1-life drain is trivially small in a 40-life format, so the real payoff is the attack-prevention, not the clock. In Pauper, where common-legal removal is highly contested, Withercrown offers a cheap, repeatable soft-lock that can matter in slower matchups. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer have access to cleaner answers at the same mana cost, so Withercrown rarely sees play there. It's most at home in Commander, where stopping a creature from swinging is often more valuable than killing it outright.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Withercrown is deep bulk — you'll find it in any common box or thrown into trade binders for free. Price stability is essentially guaranteed at this floor; there's no meaningful downside to picking up copies whenever you see them.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.