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Alpharael, Stonechosen

Legendary Creature — Human Cleric

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Void — Whenever Alpharael attacks, if a nonland permanent left the battlefield this turn or a spell was warped this turn, defending player loses half their life, rounded up.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
mythic
Set
Edge of Eternities
Price
$1.50
EDHREC rank
#11188
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Alpharael, Stonechosen card art
Alpharael, Stonechosen puts a doubling effect on life loss on the board the moment it enters, which is the whole game — everything else is just the 4-mana price tag. Bloodletter of Aclazotz does the same thing for one less mana at instant speed via combat damage, so Alpharael's value is redundancy, not novelty; Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar decks want both.

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Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar

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Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar is built around punishing life loss, so stacking Alpharael, Stonechosen as a second copy of the doubling effect turns every drain trigger into a geometric threat that tables have to answer immediately.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Alpharael, Stonechosen is legal everywhere except Pauper, but competitive 60-card formats have no interest in a four-mana do-nothing-on-its-own enchantment when faster, cheaper redundancy exists. Commander is where it actually lives — life-loss and drain strategies run deep enough in the format that the symmetry-doubling text is genuinely backbreaking, and the singleton rule makes redundancy copies like Alpharael worth a slot. Oathbreaker can support it in the right shell, but the 20-life starting total compresses its upside.

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Price Context

Current price

$1.50 cheap tier

At $1.50, Alpharael, Stonechosen sits at the cheap tier — easy to pick up as a role-player without any real financial commitment. It's a new card with narrow application, so the price is unlikely to climb unless a breakout drain commander pushes wider adoption.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.