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Archon of Falling Stars

Creature — Archon

Flying
When this creature dies, you may return target enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Theros Beyond Death
Price
$0.07
EDHREC rank
#20563
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Archon of Falling Stars card art
Archon of Falling Stars replaces itself on death with any enchantment from your graveyard onto the battlefield — a built-in recursion engine stapled to a 4/4 flier. The cost is six mana and a vulnerable body, but the payoff is immediate and requires zero setup beyond having enchantments in the bin, which means pairing it with Animate Dead turns a removal spell into a value loop.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Archon of Falling Stars is a Commander card through and through — six mana is a steep ask in any 60-card format, and competitive Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer decks have no interest in a slow enchantment-recursion body when faster payoffs exist. In Commander, the calculus flips: enchantress decks and Aura-based voltron builds get a reusable safety net that punishes opponents for attacking into it, and the format's slower clock makes the six-mana investment reasonable. Oathbreaker can support it in the right enchantment shell, but the singleton constraint and tighter game length make it a fringe inclusion rather than a staple.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.07 bulk tier

At $0.07, Archon of Falling Stars is pure bulk — pick it up without a second thought if any enchantment Commander deck needs a recursive threat. Bulk rares rarely spike unless a new commander turns them into a staple overnight, so treat it as a cheap role-player rather than a spec.

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