Belfry Spirit
Creature — Spirit
Flying
Haunt (When this creature dies, exile it haunting target creature.)
When this creature enters or the creature it haunts dies, create two 1/1 black Bat creature tokens with flying.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #21819
Belfry Spirit enters and immediately converts itself into two 1/1 flying Bats, leaving you with three bodies from one card. The cost — five mana for a 1/1 flier and two tokens — is too steep for most competitive shells, but token-doubling and sacrifice synergies narrow that gap fast.
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 |
Commander is where Belfry Spirit actually earns consideration — token-doubling effects like Doubling Season are common enough that five mana for six bodies is a real outcome, and sacrifice-based aristocrats decks welcome any ETB that produces multiple expendable creatures. In Legacy and Vintage, it's a legal curiosity, but no competitive deck at those power levels has any reason to run a five-mana 1/1 that makes two 1/1s. Modern has faster, more efficient token producers at every point on the curve, so Belfry Spirit sits on the outside looking in there too. Stick to Commander, and only in decks with explicit token-multiplication or sacrifice payoffs.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Belfry Spirit is deep bulk — grab a copy out of a common box without thinking twice. Bulk rares rarely appreciate unless a new commander pushes a narrow archetype into the spotlight, so treat this as a throw-in, not a pickup.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.