Gratuitous Violence
Gratuitous Violence: Enchantment, Bloomburrow Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}{R}{R}
- Mana value
- 5
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colour identity
- Red (R)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Bloomburrow Commander (BLC)
- Released
- 2024-08-02
- Collector number
- 197
- Artist
- Christopher Moeller
- Commander rank
- 1,500 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Double
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About Gratuitous Violence
Gratuitous Violence is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare red enchantment from Bloomburrow Commander (BLC), a Commander product released in August 2024. It is collector number 197 in that set, with art by Christopher Moeller. It costs {2}{R}{R}{R} (two generic and three red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 6 sets, from Onslaught (2002) to Foundations (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.84 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
If a creature you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage instead.
Only the Cabal could make a fight to the death more deadly.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.84 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Gratuitous Violence by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Gratuitous Violence
Gratuitous Violence has been printed in 6 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2596 | Rare | 2026 |
| Foundations (FDN) #715 | Rare | 2024 |
| Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC) #127 | Rare | 2021 |
| Conspiracy: Take the Crown (CN2) #161 | Rare | 2016 |
| Onslaught (ONS) #212 | Rare | 2002 |
Similar cards
Other enchantment cards with a red colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Gratuitous Violence is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.