Pain's Reward
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa #85 (rare)
- Price
- $10.79 USD
Each player may bid life. You start the bidding with a bid of any number. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid and draws four cards.
Pain's Reward has 1 printing, first in Saviors of Kamigawa (2005). EDHREC ranks it #12,985 among Commander cards. It appears most in Mister Negative decks (704 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Pain's Reward most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Mister Negative: 704 decks
- Sheoldred, the Apocalypse: 627 decks
- Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin: 195 decks
- Willowdusk, Essence Seer: 161 decks
- Seizan, Perverter of Truth: 154 decks
- Selenia, Dark Angel: 137 decks
- Gollum, Scheming Guide: 108 decks
- Jerren, Corrupted Bishop // Ormendahl, the Corrupter: 79 decks
Often played with Pain's Reward
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Bidding continues until all players except the one with the current high bid have declined to top that bid.
- : A player may bid more life than they have.