Withering Hex
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Whenever a player cycles a card, put a plague counter on this Aura.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 for each plague counter on this Aura.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #29718
Withering Hex sits on a creature and deals damage equal to the number of swamp-type lands you control whenever that creature is dealt damage — a snowballing drain engine in mono-black or Swamp-heavy builds. The setup cost is real: the enchanted creature needs to survive long enough to get hit, and the payoff scales entirely with your basic land density.
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 |
In Commander, Withering Hex belongs in dedicated Swamp-matters decks — Yorion shells won't bother, but a Josu Vess or Lashwrithe-style mono-black build can stack meaningful damage over a long game. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; neither format is interested in a slow enchantment that requires a Swamp count to do anything. Withering Hex is a Commander-only consideration in practice, and even there it occupies a narrow lane.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Withering Hex is deep bulk — you're paying essentially nothing for a niche enchantment. That price reflects its limited demand accurately, and there's no meaningful pressure pushing it higher.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.