Aphetto Exterminator
Creature — Human Wizard
Morph 
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When this creature is turned face up, target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Legions
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #24670
Aphetto Exterminator permanently shrinks a target creature's power and toughness by 1 each time it morphs — a repeatable minus-one counter stapled to a 2/2 body. The cost is the setup: you need morph enablers to flip it more than once, and the effect is too slow to justify the slots in most lists.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Aphetto Exterminator is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander it fits narrowest in morph-tribal shells — Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer being the obvious home — where repeated flicker or bounce effects let you stack the minus-one triggers into something meaningful. Legacy and Vintage have no interest: the effect doesn't match the power level of those formats, and morph synergies don't exist there. Oathbreaker is theoretically a home only if your planeswalker and signature spell support a morph gameplan, which is a very short list.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Aphetto Exterminator is firmly bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than buy. That price reflects its narrow application accurately and is unlikely to move without a new morph-matters commander driving sudden demand.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.