Cruel Reality

Cruel Reality price & price history

What Cruel Reality costs today, what it cost before, and how commander players actually run it. Prices update daily.

Card details

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. If the player can't, they lose 5 life.

Type
Enchantment — Aura Curse
Mana cost
{5}{B}{B}
Rarity
uncommon
Latest printing
The Zeta Set
First printed
2017-04-28
Commander legality
Legal

Cruel Reality price today

$2.47

€1.66

30 days +1.6%

as of 2026-10-05

All-time high
$2.48
All-time low
$0.90
1-year average
$1.73
Data since
2025-07-24

Cruel Reality has traded between $0.90 and $2.48, averaging $1.73 over the past year. It appears in 867 of the commander decks we track.

Cruel Reality in the deckdiver.app commander deck database

Decks running it
867

of 891,084 commander decks, 0.1%.

Median deck price
$281

most of those decks cost $96.30 to $1,591.

Median power level
4.8

runs 4 to 6.5 across those decks.

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Real decks that run Cruel Reality

Pulled from the decks we index, with the stats we track for every one of them. The picks rotate weekly.

Budget build
$101
price
5.3
power
4.8
salt
Bracket 2 (Core)
{U}{B}{R}midrange
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Typical build
$259
price
5.0
power
4.0
salt
Bracket 2 (Core)
{U}{B}{R}midrange
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High-end build
$1,742
price
4.7
power
3.9
salt
Bracket 4 (Optimized)
{U}{B}midrange
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