Bane of the Living
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Insect
- Power / toughness
- 4 / 3
- Set
- Commander 2016 #106 (rare)
- Price
- $0.33 USD
Morph {X}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When this creature is turned face up, all creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
Bane of the Living has 4 printings, first in Legions (2003). EDHREC ranks it #10,374 among Commander cards. It appears most in Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer decks (5,404 on EDHREC). 3 public decks on TCG run it. It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Bane of the Living
- Breed Lethality - Commander 2016, led by Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
- Breed Lethality - Commander Anthology Volume II, led by Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
- Faceless Menace - Commander 2019, led by Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer
Commanders that run Bane of the Living most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer: 5,404 decks
- Zask, Skittering Swarmlord: 744 decks
- Missy: 506 decks
- Roshan, Hidden Magister: 65 decks
- Swarm, Being of Bees: 4 decks
Often played with Bane of the Living
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The X in the ability has the same value as the X paid in the Morph ability. This is pretty easy to derive since there is no other source of X.
- : The trigger occurs when you use the Morph ability to turn the card face up, or when an effect turns it face up. It will not trigger on being revealed or on leaving the battlefield.