USD
$11.14
USD foil
$11.00
EUR
€4.21
MTGO
0.02 tix
Pain's Reward
Sorcery
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.
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa (SOK #85)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2005-06-03
- Artist
- Matt Cavotta
- EDHREC rank
- #13,014
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
1
+
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Salt Score
0.57
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Combos 1
Pain's Reward+Children of Korlis+Vizkopa Guildmage
Near-infinite lifeloss
396 decks
Commander Spellbook ↗
Format legality
Standard
Not legal
Pioneer
Not legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Pauper
Not legal
Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Brawl
Not legal
Standard Brawl
Not legal
Historic
Not legal
Timeless
Not legal
Alchemy
Not legal
Penny
Legal
Premodern
Not legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper EDH
Not legal
Old School
Not legal
Future
Not legal
Gladiator
Not legal
Rulings
- 2005-06-01
A player may bid more life than they have.
- 2005-06-01
Bidding continues until all players except the one with the current high bid have declined to top that bid.