Card

Auntie Ool, Cursewretch

Mana cost {1}{B}{R}{G}

Legendary Creature — Goblin Warlock 4/4

Ward—Blight 2. (To blight 2, a player puts two -1/-1 counters on a creature they control.) Whenever one or more -1/-1 counters are put on a creature, draw a card if you control that creature. If you don't control it, its controller loses 1 life.

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 1 known combo. 6 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Mythic · ECC · #2
Cheapest printing
€0.51
EDHREC salt
—
Color identity
Black, Green, Red
Keywords
Blight, Ward

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

  • B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
  • B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

  • No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

1 known combo.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast
    All of the -1/-1 counters must be put on a single creature. You can't choose to split them up between multiple creatures.
  • 2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast
    Once you've announced that you're casting a spell or activating an ability, players can't take actions until you've finished doing so. Notably, opponents can't try to destroy or otherwise remove your creatures to stop you from blighting as part of paying the cost of that spell or ability.
  • 2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast
    If a creature has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, state-based actions remove the same number of each so that it has only one kind of those counters on it. For example, if a creature has three +1/+1 counters on it and two -1/-1 counters are put on it, state-based actions will remove two of each of those kinds of counters, leaving the creature with just one +1/+1 counter.
  • 2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast
    The creature you choose to put -1/-1 counters on doesn't have to have enough toughness to survive the process. For example, if you blight 2, you can choose to put the counters on a 1/1 creature you control.
  • 2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast
    If a creature that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner's graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, effects that refer to the counters on that creature when it died will see all of those +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters.
  • 2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you can't place -1/-1 counters on any creatures you control (probably because you control no creatures), you can't choose to blight.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast