---
name: "Haunting Misery"
mana_cost: "{1}{B}{B}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: ["B"]
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: []
set: "WTH"
set_name: "Weatherlight"
collector_number: "71"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Gary Leach"
oracle_id: "8db6651b-c368-46fd-b9c2-69a4d6562246"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/haunting-misery-wth"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Haunting Misery
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{B}{B}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Sorcery

## Oracle Text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X creature cards from your graveyard.
Haunting Misery deals X damage to target player or planeswalker.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Chill Haunting](/printing/chill-haunting-scg.md) — Instant
2. [March of Wretched Sorrow](/printing/march-of-wretched-sorrow-neo.md) — Instant
3. [Corpse Explosion](/printing/corpse-explosion-psnc.md) — Sorcery
4. [Harvest Pyre](/printing/harvest-pyre-isd.md) — Instant
5. [Necrotic Fumes](/printing/necrotic-fumes-stx.md) — Sorcery — Lesson
6. [Corpse Lunge](/printing/corpse-lunge-isd.md) — Instant

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Weatherlight (WTH) #71
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Gary Leach
- **Total Printings:** 9 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `legal` | Penny: `not_legal`