Tainted Strike price & price history

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

Tainted Strike price today

$3.47

€2.26

30 days +13.4%

as of 2026-11-10

All-time high
$4.22
All-time low
$1.15
1-year average
$2.69
Data since
2025-07-24

Tainted Strike has traded between $1.15 and $4.22, averaging $2.69 over the past year. It appears in 8,071 of the commander decks we track.

Card details

Card text

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Type
Instant
Mana cost
{B}
Rarity
common
Latest printing
The List
First printed
2010-10-01
Commander legality
Legal

Tainted Strike in the deckdiver.app commander deck database

Decks running it
8,071

of 970,456 commander decks, 0.8%.

Median deck price
$493

most of those decks cost $129 to $2,408.

Median power level
5.9

runs 4.2 to 8 across those decks.

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Real decks that run Tainted Strike

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

Budget build
$122
price
5.9
power
2.4
salt
Bracket 1 (Exhibition)
{B}{R}combo
More Juri decks
Typical build
$493
price
7.4
power
3.6
salt
Bracket 4 (Optimized)
{W}{U}{B}midrange
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High-end build
$2,196
price
7.6
power
7.1
salt
Bracket 4 (Optimized)
{B}combo
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