Archfiend of Sorrows
Creature — Demon
Flying
When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Unearth 
(: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #14501
Archfiend of Sorrows enters and immediately halves every opponent's board, then demands a removal spell or starts swinging for 6 flying damage. Eight mana is the real cost, and that price tag keeps it out of fast metas — but in midrange and reanimator shells, the enter-the-battlefield effect alone justifies the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Archfiend of Sorrows fills a specific niche: a reanimation target or Kaalia of the Vast payload that doubles as a board-wide debuff the moment it resolves. The -2/-2 effect hits all opponents simultaneously, which scales well in four-player games and can wipe token boards clean on entry. In Legacy and Vintage, eight mana is simply uncompetitive — those formats kill you before you cast it fairly, and better reanimation targets exist for cheat-into-play strategies. Modern is equally unkind; the mana investment doesn't match what the format demands at that slot. Archfiend of Sorrows is fundamentally a Commander card, best in decks that either cheat it into play or loop it for repeated enter-the-battlefield triggers.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Archfiend of Sorrows is deep bulk — there's no price barrier to picking up a copy. It won't hold or gain value, but for the effect it delivers in Commander reanimator and Kaalia builds, the cost of entry is essentially zero.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.