Feed the Swarm
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-11-08
If a permanent on the battlefield has X in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
- 2024-11-08
If the target permanent is an illegal target by the time Feed the Swarm tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. You don't lose any life. If the target is legal but not destroyed (most likely because it has indestructible), you do lose life.
- 2024-11-08
The amount of life you lose is determined by the permanent's mana value as it last existed on the battlefield.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Feed the Swarm, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gisa and Geralf | 6 | 0 | — |
| Mishra, Eminent One | 4 | 0 | — |
| Sauron, the Dark Lord | 3 | 16 | 12.5% |
| Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls | 3 | 1 | — |
| Doctor Doom, King of Latveria | 3 | 0 | — |
| Nekusar, the Mindrazer | 2 | 0 | — |
| Sauron, Lord of the Rings | 2 | 0 | — |
| Syr Konrad, the Grim | 1 | 9 | 55.6% |
Colors it shows up in
- Grixis 17 decks
- Mono-Black 11 decks
- Dimir 11 decks
- Rakdos 8 decks
- Golgari 2 decks
- Four-Color (no Red) 2 decks
- Five-Color 2 decks
- Sultai 1 deck
- Orzhov 1 deck
- Abzan 1 deck
- Mardu 1 deck
Feed the Swarm price history
The Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal #257 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.84 |
| Nov 9, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.87 |
| Nov 7, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.82 |
| Nov 6, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.81 |
| Nov 5, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.74 |
| Nov 4, 2026 | $0.22 | $0.76 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | $0.22 | $0.79 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | $0.22 | $0.81 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.22 | $0.74 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.22 | $0.75 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $0.21 | $0.75 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $0.21 | $0.76 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $0.22 | $0.76 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $0.21 | $0.77 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $0.22 | $0.82 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.87 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.93 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.91 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.95 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.95 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.94 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.98 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.98 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.96 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.98 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.22 | $0.96 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.96 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.21 | $0.97 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.22 | $1.01 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Feed the Swarm
27 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Full Art
The Zeta Set
- Normal
- —
Full Art
The Zeta Set
- Normal
- —
Full Art
The Zeta Set
- Normal
- —
Showcase
Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive
- Foil
- $16.38
Showcase
Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive
- Normal
- $0.38
- Foil
- $1.07
Showcase
Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive
- Normal
- $1.80
Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
- Normal
- $0.23
- Foil
- $0.84
Inverted
Marvel Universe
- Normal
- $1.97
- Foil
- $4.67
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Foil
- $5.02
- Normal
- $0.37
- Foil
- $0.19
Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
- Normal
- $0.25
- Normal
- $0.23
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
- Normal
- $0.36
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
- Normal
- $0.31
- Normal
- $0.35
- Foil
- $2.33
- Foil
- $13.41
- Normal
- $0.34
- Foil
- $0.91
Tales of Middle-earth Commander
- Normal
- $0.37
- Normal
- $0.24
- Normal
- $0.94
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Normal
- $0.38
- Normal
- $0.44
- Normal
- $0.39
- Normal
- $0.37
- Normal
- $0.39
- Normal
- $0.28
- Foil
- $0.87
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Feed the Swarm. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
